Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Saint Augustine

Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Saint Augustine

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Saint Augustine

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

Saint Augustine

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

Tori Amos

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

Robert Crais

Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

Richard P. Feynman

It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.

Richelle Mead

Indeed. That pony collection isn’t nearly complete,” Carter mused. When I dared a look back at him, I saw that the angel was smiling at me. “You see? You aren’t lost. No matter what happens to you, you have a plan. There’s still hope.

Richelle Mead

What, are you doing? Aside from getting your sandwich cold." "I’m making a snow angel. Don’t you know what that is?" "Yes, I know. But why? You must be freezing." "Not so much, actually. My face is a little, I guess.

Rex Reed

In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

Rebecca De Mornay

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

Richard Rohr

One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.

Tupac Shakur

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

Rod McKuen

We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.

Sarojini Naidu

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

Sarah McLachlan

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.

Sarah McLachlan

In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Samuel Johnson

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

Wallace Stevens

I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

Wallace Stevens

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.

Wallace Stevens

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again...

Virgil

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

Willa Holland

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

Walter Lang

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

Walter Lippmann

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Voltaire

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Voltaire

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Winston Churchill

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

William Law

This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.