Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Aquinas

Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.

Thomas Aquinas

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself....

Thomas Aquinas

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

Thomas Aquinas

Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.

Thomas Aquinas

The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.

Thomas Aquinas

The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.

Thomas Aquinas

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

Thomas Aquinas

A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

Therese of Lisieux

You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.

Therese of Lisieux

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

Terry Taylor

Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God.

Terry Taylor

The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.

Terry Taylor

When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way.

Tennessee Williams

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Tennessee Williams

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride ruined the angels.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

Selena Gomez

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

Sean Young

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

Li Bingbing

To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

Thomas a Kempis

Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.

Vita Sackville-West

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

Saul Alinsky

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;

Saul Alinsky

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Saul Alinsky

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

Tom Morello

Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

Tina St. John

Looking for me, Angel?

Russell Sherman

Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.

Ronald Firbank

There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.