The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. – George Elliot
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. – G.K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. – William Blake
Angels have no philosophy but love. – Terri Guillemets
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. – Meister Eckhart
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. – Luciano de Crescenzo
The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. – Jean Paul Richter
The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people. – Eric Honeycutt
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. – Jean Cocteau
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. – Josh Billings
It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. – George Bernard Shaw
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. – StThomas Aquinas
If we were all like angels, the world would be a heavenly place. – Author Unknown
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
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. – Thomas Carlyle
I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. – Terri Guillemets
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. – Lydia M. Child
