Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Martin Luther

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Martin Luther

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

Martin Luther

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Martin Luther

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

Martin Luther

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

Martin Luther

Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God.

Nancy Farmer

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

Nancy Gibbs

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

Nancy Astor

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Mortimer Adler

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God....

Mortimer Adler

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

Misha Collins

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

Philip Sidney

**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life....

Philip Roth

There are no uncontaminated angels

Philip Guston

I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Edward Taylor

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

Edward Taylor

Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.

Edward Albee

You want to dance with me, angel tits?

Holly Black

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

Holly Black

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

Hermann Hesse

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how contains the possibility of becoming human, partially even by learning to make himself conscious of them; only in this respect are these possibilities his.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the language spoken by angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.