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...Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetyp...

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Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creatio...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

It's too cold outside for angels to fly.

It's too cold outsideFor angels to flyAn angel will dieCovered in whiteClosed eyeAnd hoping for a be...

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I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; ...

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[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o...

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Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. ...

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Emanuel SwedenborgSecrets of Heaven (Swedenborg

I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to...

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Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link ...

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I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and ...

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George SandGeorge Sand: A Biography

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him ...

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I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.

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Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto

The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers...

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Iris MurdochThe Time of the Angels

And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on inno...

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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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James MadisonFederalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses ...

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James MadisonThe Federalist Papers

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...

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Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good t...

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Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!

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John IrvingIn One Person

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried a...

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So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found,Among the faithless, faithful only hee;Among innumerable f...

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We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might ...

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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry t...

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Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel's obscure speech, a...

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That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels ...

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Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

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She writes like an angel, it says of Laura on the back of one of the editions of The Blind Assassin....

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The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be...

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have m...

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Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger

Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?

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Mark TwainThe Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am conte...

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When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast ...

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The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above al...

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I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

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Neil GaimanMurder Mysteries

Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But s...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. The...

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Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised I already had. ...

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How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised that I already ...

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Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, si...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capa...

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A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke ...

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Peter S. BeagleWe Never Talk about My Brother

A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had be...

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Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witc...

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Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

If somewhere deep within me arises some essenceof having been a child, one I never experienced,perha...

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Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me...

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O smile, going where? O upturned look:new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;alas, we are that sur...

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Every angel is terrifying.

They all have tired mouthsand bright seamless souls.And a longing (as for sin)sometimes haunts their...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Book of Images

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,One task more declin'd, one more foot-path ontrod...

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I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights; N...

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Why does she have wings?'So she can fly.

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame a...

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Stephen CraneComplete Poems of Stephen Crane

It was wrong to do this," said the angel."You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,...

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Stephen CraneComplete Poems of Stephen Crane

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is h...

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Under the penitential gatesSustained by staring SeraphimWhere the souls of the devoutBurn invisible ...

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

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Tennessee WilliamsConversations with Tennessee Williams

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. E...

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. A...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, wi...

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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...

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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & He...

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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if o...

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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to...

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Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dea...

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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of di...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he lon...

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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...

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Antonin ArtaudLettres à Génica Athanasiou

perhaps the answer is simply one:one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet,a small jazz co...

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Billy CollinsSailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't b...

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Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[Angels] guide, comfort, and provide for the people of God in the midst of suffering and persecution...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The empire of angels is as vast as God’s creation. If you believe the Bible, you will believe in the...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Whether or not we sense and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit or one of the holy angels, by faith...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[Angels] crisscross the Old and New Testaments, being mentioned directly or indirectly nearly 300 ti...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Just as millions of angels participated in the dazzling show when the morning stars sang together at...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes