Famous Quotes & Sayings

The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

Francis Bacon

The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it

Peter Mueller

A grand coalition will only happen with a Chancellor Angela Merkel, not part-time, but the entire four-year-period,

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? / And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

Abraham Lincoln

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Phillips Brooks

The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

Joan Anderson

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

Joan Anderson

We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.

William Friedkin

The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.

The King incident was a spontaneous reaction to a middle-of-the-night situation. I think Rampart is worse, ... Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.

Jason Lee

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has been made aware of the investigation.

Emilie Autumn

What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

Ellen G. White

When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.

Ellen G. White

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

Emily Dickinson

She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.

Emily Dickinson

We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

Simone Elkeles

Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.

Rip Taylor

Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.

Rihanna

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

Thomas Traherne

How like an angel came I down!

Thomas Traherne

He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Laurie Anderson

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

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....