Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

John Newton

If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.

John Newton

A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

John Muir

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....

John the Apostle

The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

John the Apostle

The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

John Steinbeck

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

John Steinbeck

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

John Steinbeck

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

Theodore Parker

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Theodore L. Cuyler

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

Thaddeus Stevens

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

Margaret Fuller

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels ...

Melissa Etheridge

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

Michelangelo

There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.

Meat Loaf

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

May Sarton

For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.

May Sarton

For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer.

Matthew Simpson

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Matthew Simpson

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

Matthew Henry

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

Mattie Stepanek

I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow.

Marilynne Robinson

When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there was a hierarchy of being. If you look at Thomas Aquinas, for example, you have hierarchies of angels and all the rest of it, and hierarchies even of saints and then subsaints - people who aren't quite there, that sort of thing. The Reformation rejected all of that and created a new metaphysics, in effect, that is not hierarchical.

Mary Todd Lincoln

He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.

Pat Martin

Who the hell uses a burner cell phone when they're not trying to hide something? [..] Only dope dealers, and Hell's Angels, and Tony Soprano use burner cell phones.

Plato

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

Laini Taylor

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

Laini Taylor

She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

Laini Taylor

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

Laini Taylor

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Laini Taylor

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

Lisa Kleypas

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

John Shelby Spong

There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.