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id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><dl><dd><i>For other uses of "Angel", see <a href="/wiki/Angel_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Angel (disambiguation)">Angel (disambiguation)</a>.</i></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Angel_statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Angel_statue.jpg/220px-Angel_statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Angel_statue.jpg/330px-Angel_statue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Angel_statue.jpg/440px-Angel_statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="711" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>It is not because angels are holier than <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> or <a href="/wiki/Devils" class="mw-redirect" title="Devils">devils</a> that makes them angels, but because they do not expect <a href="/wiki/Holiness" title="Holiness">holiness</a> from one another, but from <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> alone. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Wounded_Angel_-_Hugo_Simberg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Wounded_Angel_-_Hugo_Simberg.jpg/200px-The_Wounded_Angel_-_Hugo_Simberg.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Wounded_Angel_-_Hugo_Simberg.jpg/300px-The_Wounded_Angel_-_Hugo_Simberg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Wounded_Angel_-_Hugo_Simberg.jpg/400px-The_Wounded_Angel_-_Hugo_Simberg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8537" data-file-height="6870" /></a><figcaption><i>The Wounded Angel</i>, Hugo Simberg, 1903, voted Finland's "national painting" during 2006.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel" class="extiw" title="w:Angel">Angels</a></b> are divine messengers or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(philosophy)" class="extiw" title="w:Transcendence (philosophy)">transcendental</a> beings found in many <a href="/wiki/Religions" class="mw-redirect" title="Religions">religions</a>. This page is for quotes about or referring to Angels. </p><p><br /> </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MichaelKi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/MichaelKi.jpg/220px-MichaelKi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/MichaelKi.jpg/330px-MichaelKi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/MichaelKi.jpg/440px-MichaelKi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="444" /></a><figcaption>Calm and <a href="/wiki/Serene" class="mw-redirect" title="Serene">serene</a> he drives the furious blast;<br />And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,<br />Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the <a href="/wiki/Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Why don't we make <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> 'stead of makin' plans</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a> <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>, <a href="/wiki/Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Father">Father</a> <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">Time</a>, maybe its the <a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">Family</a> <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">Man</a><br /><b>Angels cry when they hear that tune</b><br />It's sleepless <a href="/wiki/Nights" class="mw-redirect" title="Nights">nights</a> for the man in the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">moon</a><br />And its the rhythm of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>'s made up. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleta_Adams" class="extiw" title="w:Oleta Adams">Oleta Adams</a>, <i>Rhythm of Life</i>, the first track of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_One" class="extiw" title="w:Circle of One">Circle of One</a></i> (1990) · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZXQwizQloI">YouTube video</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So when an angel by divine command<br />With rising tempests shakes a guilty <a href="/wiki/Land" title="Land">land</a>,<br />Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past,<br /><b>Calm and <a href="/wiki/Serene" class="mw-redirect" title="Serene">serene</a> he drives the furious blast;<br />And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,<br />Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the <a href="/wiki/Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a>, <i>The Campaign</i> (1704), line 287. (A similar use of words was later made in <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dunciad" title="The Dunciad">Dunciad</a></i>, Book III, line 264, but not in reference to an angel).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I have a <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">song</a> to sing, <br /> To <a href="/wiki/Help" title="Help">help</a> me cope with anything.</b> <br /> If you see the <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">fairy tale</a> <br /> You can take the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> even if you <a href="/wiki/Fail" class="mw-redirect" title="Fail">fail</a>.<br /> <b>I <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a> in <a class="mw-selflink selflink">angels</a>, something <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> in everything I see.</b><br /> I believe in angels, when I know the <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> is <a href="/wiki/Right" class="mw-redirect" title="Right">right</a> for me, <br /> I'll cross the stream, <br /> <b>I have a dream.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benny_Andersson" title="Benny Andersson">Benny Andersson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjorn_Ulvaeus" class="extiw" title="w:Bjorn Ulvaeus">Bjorn Ulvaeus</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:I Have a Dream (song)">I Have a Dream</a>", on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA" class="extiw" title="w:ABBA">ABBA</a> album <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voulez-Vous" class="extiw" title="w:Voulez-Vous">Voulez-Vous</a></i> (1979).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> who walk angelically according to their free will and practice <a href="/wiki/Discipline" title="Discipline">discipline</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> of the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">angels</a> remove themselves completely from the <a href="/wiki/Desires" class="mw-redirect" title="Desires">desires</a> of the flesh, beloved brothers; they <a href="/wiki/Die" class="mw-redirect" title="Die">die</a> daily in the life that belongs to <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>, but they live in the life of the angels, just as they share in the life of the Lord. <ul><li>[Athanasius of Alexandria]] “The advanced life of virtue,” <i>Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism</i> (1995), p. 314</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>An angel can illuminate the <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> of <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a> by <a href="/wiki/Strength" title="Strength">strengthening</a> the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> of <a href="/wiki/Vision" title="Vision">vision</a>, and by bringing within his reach some <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> which the angel himself contemplates.</b> <ul><li>St <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a>, as quoted in <i>Angels : A Joyous Celebration</i> (1999) by Running Press, p. 121.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Church_on_West_31st_Street,_New_York,_NY_mosaic.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Church_on_West_31st_Street%2C_New_York%2C_NY_mosaic.jpg/220px-Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Church_on_West_31st_Street%2C_New_York%2C_NY_mosaic.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="445" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Church_on_West_31st_Street%2C_New_York%2C_NY_mosaic.jpg/330px-Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Church_on_West_31st_Street%2C_New_York%2C_NY_mosaic.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Church_on_West_31st_Street%2C_New_York%2C_NY_mosaic.jpg/440px-Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Church_on_West_31st_Street%2C_New_York%2C_NY_mosaic.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1108" data-file-height="2243" /></a><figcaption>The Lord will command his angels to take good care of you. They will lift you up in their hands. Then you won't trip over a stone. ~ <a href="/wiki/The_Bible" title="The Bible">The Bible</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franz_von_Stuck_003.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Franz_von_Stuck_003.jpg/220px-Franz_von_Stuck_003.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Franz_von_Stuck_003.jpg/330px-Franz_von_Stuck_003.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Franz_von_Stuck_003.jpg/440px-Franz_von_Stuck_003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1256" data-file-height="1711" /></a><figcaption> A <a href="/wiki/Tear" class="mw-redirect" title="Tear">tear</a> is an intellectual thing,<br />And a sigh is the <a href="/wiki/Sword" title="Sword">Sword</a> of an Angel King. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Friedensengel_ORA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Friedensengel_ORA.jpg/220px-Friedensengel_ORA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Friedensengel_ORA.jpg/330px-Friedensengel_ORA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Friedensengel_ORA.jpg/440px-Friedensengel_ORA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="726" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>I heard an Angel <a href="/wiki/Singing" title="Singing">singing</a><br />When the <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">day</a> was springing:<br />"<a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">Mercy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pity" title="Pity">Pity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">Peace</a><br />Are the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>'s release." ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_013.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hieronymus_Bosch_013.jpg/220px-Hieronymus_Bosch_013.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="503" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hieronymus_Bosch_013.jpg/330px-Hieronymus_Bosch_013.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hieronymus_Bosch_013.jpg/440px-Hieronymus_Bosch_013.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3444" data-file-height="7867" /></a><figcaption>I don't mind if it's <a href="/wiki/Dangerous" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangerous">dangerous</a><br />I don't mind if it's raining<br />Take me up to the top of the city<br />And put me up on the angel's shoulders. ~ <a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Francesco_Botticini_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Francesco_Botticini_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg/220px-Francesco_Botticini_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Francesco_Botticini_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg/330px-Francesco_Botticini_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Francesco_Botticini_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg/440px-Francesco_Botticini_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="3643" /></a><figcaption>I can see angels standing around you.<br />They shimmer like mirrors in <a href="/wiki/Summer" title="Summer">Summer</a>.<br />But you don't know it.<br />And they will carry you o'er the walls.<br />If you need us, just call. ~ <a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>The Lord will command his angels to take good care of you. They will lift you up in their hands. Then you won't trip over a stone.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Bible" title="The Bible">The Bible</a>, Psalms 91, 11-12, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bibleserver.com/text/NIRV/Psalm91,11-12">New International Readers Version</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, that all who pass may read. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, "Samson", <i>Poetical Sketches</i> (1783).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Cherish <a href="/wiki/Pity" title="Pity">pity</a>, lest you drive an angel from ye <a href="/wiki/Door" title="Door">door</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, "Holy Thursday".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I heard an Angel <a href="/wiki/Singing" title="Singing">singing</a><br />When the <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">day</a> was springing:<br />"<a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">Mercy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pity" title="Pity">Pity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">Peace</a><br />Are the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>'s release." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, "The Two Songs".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A <a href="/wiki/Tear" class="mw-redirect" title="Tear">tear</a> is an intellectual thing,<br />And a sigh is the <a href="/wiki/Sword" title="Sword">Sword</a> of an Angel King.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, "The Agony of Faith".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It is not because angels are holier than <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> or <a href="/wiki/Devils" class="mw-redirect" title="Devils">devils</a> that makes them angels, but because they do not expect <a href="/wiki/Holiness" title="Holiness">holiness</a> from one another, but from <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> alone.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, "A Vision of the Last Judgement".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The player is a liar when he says : "Angels are <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happier</a> than men, because they are better." <b>Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> and <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a> in one another, and eating the <a href="/wiki/Tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Tree">tree</a> of <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> for <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a>'s gratification.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, "A Vision of the Last Judgement".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Hey if <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> will send his angels<br />And if God will send a <a href="/wiki/Sign" title="Sign">sign</a><br />And if God will send his angels<br />Would <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">everything</a> be alright?</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_God_Will_Send_His_Angels" class="extiw" title="w:If God Will Send His Angels">If God Will Send His Angels</a>" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Pop (album)">Pop</a></i> (1997); also used in <i><a href="/wiki/City_of_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Angels">City of Angels</a></i> (1998).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> will send his angels<br />I sure could use them here right now<br />Well if God would send his angels<br />And I don't have to know how. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a>, "If God Will Send His Angels" on <i>Pop</i> (1997); also used in <i>City of Angels</i> (1998).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Angels and Demons can't cross over into our plane. So, instead we get what I call half-breeds. The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. A single <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">word</a> can give you <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a>, or turn your favorite <a href="/wiki/Pleasure" title="Pleasure">pleasure</a> into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch and those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance. I call it hypocritical bullshit. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constantine" class="extiw" title="w:John Constantine">John Constantine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Constantine_(film)" title="Constantine (film)">Constantine</a></i> written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Brodbin" class="extiw" title="w:Kevin Brodbin">Kevin Brodbin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bomback" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Bomback">Mark Bomback</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Capello" class="extiw" title="w:Frank Capello">Frank Capello</a>, based on the DC/Vertigo comic book <i><a href="/wiki/Hellblazer" title="Hellblazer">Hellblazer</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>As the moths around a taper,<br />As the bees around a <a href="/wiki/Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="Rose">rose</a>,<br />As the gnats around a vapour,<br />So the spirits group and close<br />Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a>, <i>A Child Asleep</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We are not this story's author, who fills <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a> with his <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a>.</b> Yet his purpose is achieved in our <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a>; and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another. Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today: to make our <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> more <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">just</a> and <a href="/wiki/Generous" class="mw-redirect" title="Generous">generous</a>; to affirm the <a href="/wiki/Dignity" title="Dignity">dignity</a> of our lives and every <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a> continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this <a href="/wiki/Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>, in his first Inaugural speech (21 January 2001), referring to a famous quote of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Page_(Virginia_politician)" class="extiw" title="w:John Page (Virginia politician)">John Page</a> (see below) about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" class="extiw" title="w:American Revolutionary War">American Revolution</a>, which itself refers to the earlier use of the concept by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a> (see above).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i><b>When you reach for a <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">star</a><br />Only angels are there</b><br />And it's not very far<br />Just a step on a stair…</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfbkVKmbG0">"The Magician"</a> a song written for the soundtrack of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician_of_Lublin_(film)" class="extiw" title="w:The Magician of Lublin (film)">The Magician of Lublin</a></i> (1979), based on the 1960 novel by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer" title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>I don't mind if it's <a href="/wiki/Dangerous" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangerous">dangerous</a><br />I don't mind if it's raining<br />Take me up to the top of the city<br />And put me up on the angel's shoulders.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>, in "Top of the City" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:The Red Shoes (album)">The Red Shoes</a></i> (1993).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel" class="extiw" title="w:Gabriel">Gabriel</a> before me<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_(archangel)" class="extiw" title="w:Raphael (archangel)">Raphael</a> behind me<br /><a href="/wiki/Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">Michael</a> to my right<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel" class="extiw" title="w:Uriel">Uriel</a> on my left side<br />In the <a href="/wiki/Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Circle">circle</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a>.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>, in "Lily" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:The Red Shoes (album)">The Red Shoes</a></i> (1993).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i><b>Aren't we all the same? In and out of <a href="/wiki/Doubt" title="Doubt">doubt</a>.<br />I can see angels standing around you.</b><br />They shimmer like mirrors in <a href="/wiki/Summer" title="Summer">Summer</a>.<br />But you don't know it.<br />And they will carry you o'er the walls.<br />If you need us, just call.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>, in "Among Angels" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Words_for_Snow" class="extiw" title="w:50 Words for Snow">50 Words for Snow</a></i> (2011).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abbott_Handerson_Thayer_-_Angel_-_Smithsonian.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Abbott_Handerson_Thayer_-_Angel_-_Smithsonian.jpg/220px-Abbott_Handerson_Thayer_-_Angel_-_Smithsonian.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Abbott_Handerson_Thayer_-_Angel_-_Smithsonian.jpg/330px-Abbott_Handerson_Thayer_-_Angel_-_Smithsonian.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Abbott_Handerson_Thayer_-_Angel_-_Smithsonian.jpg/440px-Abbott_Handerson_Thayer_-_Angel_-_Smithsonian.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3101" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. ~ <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Das_J%C3%BCngste_Gericht_(Memling).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Das_J%C3%BCngste_Gericht_%28Memling%29.jpg/220px-Das_J%C3%BCngste_Gericht_%28Memling%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Das_J%C3%BCngste_Gericht_%28Memling%29.jpg/330px-Das_J%C3%BCngste_Gericht_%28Memling%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Das_J%C3%BCngste_Gericht_%28Memling%29.jpg/440px-Das_J%C3%BCngste_Gericht_%28Memling%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3543" data-file-height="2359" /></a><figcaption>If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">devil</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>But <a href="/wiki/Sad" class="mw-redirect" title="Sad">sad</a> as angels for the good man's sin,<br />Weep to record, and blush to give it in. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Campbell" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Campbell">Thomas Campbell</a>, <i>Pleasures of Hope</i>, Part II, line 357.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What though my winged hours of <a href="/wiki/Bliss" title="Bliss">bliss</a> have been<br />Like angel visits, few and far between. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Campbell" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Campbell">Thomas Campbell</a>, <i>Pleasures of Hope</i>, Part II, line 375.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>What is all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> now, believe in angels.</b> What're you, fucking <a href="/wiki/Stupid" class="mw-redirect" title="Stupid">stupid</a>? Has everybody lost their fucking <a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">minds</a> in this country? Angels, shit. You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive collective psychotic chemical flashback of all the <a href="/wiki/Drugs" title="Drugs">drugs</a> — <i>all</i> the drugs — smoked, swallowed, snorted, shot, and absorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990. Thirty years of adulterated street drugs'll get you some fucking angels, my <a href="/wiki/Friend" class="mw-redirect" title="Friend">friend</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a>, "Angels" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_All_Diseased" class="extiw" title="w:You Are All Diseased">You Are All Diseased</a></i> (1999).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Music is well said to be the speech of angels.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>The Opera</i> (1852).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxy_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Orthodoxy (book)">Orthodoxy</a>" (1908), Chapter VII : The Eternal Revolution; this is sometimes paraphrased "The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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 decypher even fragments of their meaning. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lydia_Maria_Child" title="Lydia Maria Child">Lydia Maria Child</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lettersfromnewyo00child/page/n8">Letters from New York</a></i>, vol. 1, letter 26.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>...virginity is better than marriage, however good.... Celibacy is...an imitation of the angels. Therefore, virginity is as much more honorable than marriage, as the angel is higher than man. But why do I say angel? Christ, Himself, is the glory of virginity <ul><li>St. <a href="/wiki/John_Chrysostom" title="John Chrysostom">John Chrysostom</a>, Homily 19 on First Corinthians, NPNF, s. 1, v. 12, pp. 248–262.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luciano_De_Crescenzo" title="Luciano De Crescenzo">Luciano De Crescenzo</a>, <i>Così parlò Bellavista</i> (1977), ch. 23, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=6r0JAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Siamo+angeli">p. 167</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">devil</a>. He cannot stop at the beast. </b>The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.<b></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a> in conversation (30 August 1833), as quoted in <i>Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge</i> (1835), edited by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Nelson_Coleridge" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Nelson Coleridge">Henry Nelson Coleridge</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hold the fleet angel fast until he <a href="/wiki/Bless" class="mw-redirect" title="Bless">bless</a> thee. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Cotton" title="Nathaniel Cotton">Nathaniel Cotton</a>, <i>To-morrow</i>, line 36</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When one that holds communion with the <a href="/wiki/Skies" class="mw-redirect" title="Skies">skies</a><br />Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise,<br />And once more mingles with us meaner things,<br />'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, <i>Charity</i>, line 439</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,’ this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>Daniel 4:23-25</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>For he will give his angels a command concerning you, To guard you in all your ways. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/psalms/91/Psalm">Psalm 91:11</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am as light as a feather, I am as <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a> as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Scrooge" class="extiw" title="w:Ebenezer Scrooge">Ebenezer Scrooge</a>, after awakening on Christmas morning, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol" class="extiw" title="w:A Christmas Carol">A Christmas Carol</a></i> (1843), by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was the <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a> of a day in June; the deep blue <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a> unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Curiosity_Shop" class="extiw" title="w:The Old Curiosity Shop">The Old Curiosity Shop</a></i> (1841).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Shadows" title="Shadows">shadows</a> of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Rudge:_A_Tale_of_the_Riots_of_%27Eighty" class="extiw" title="w:Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty">Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty</a></i> (1841).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> loves to quote the lyrical closing lines of <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s First Inaugural Address, calling on "the better angels of our <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>" to overcome partisan hatreds and political divisions. Obama cited those words in his own inaugural proclamation and rested his hand on <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a>'s Bible when he took the oath of office. He has come back to those angels again and again ever since. … He used the phrase to eulogize <a href="/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy">Ted Kennedy</a>, to chide a would-be <i><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a></i> burner in Florida, and to say goodbye to chief of staff <a href="/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a>. Obama, it seems, sees better angels just about everywhere. Even as he traveled in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> this week he talked about his efforts to live up to the example of <a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>, and, yes, <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>.<br />But in <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> of today's real-world <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a>, Obama should think a little harder about the context in which Lincoln summoned those better angels on March 4, 1861. Led by South Carolina (now home to Sen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint" class="extiw" title="w:Jim DeMint">Jim DeMint</a>, seven of 33 states had already seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy at that point. … If, in the end, Lincoln did manage to hold the Union together, it was not because of the better angels of human nature, but because he finally found the killer angels among his generals who could, and did, and at enormous cost, crush the secessionists. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dickey" class="extiw" title="w:Christopher Dickey">Christopher Dickey</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/10/better-angels-and-killer-angels.html">"Better Angels and Killer Angels", <i>Newsweek</i> (10 November 2010)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a> had an ally then of a kind that <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Obama</a> could use now. Lincoln's old rival from Illinois, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Douglas" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Douglas">Stephen Douglas</a>, whose party had been split by the fire-eaters and whom Lincoln defeated at the polls, became a wise and vital friend. In the months between the inauguration and Douglas's early <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> in June 1861, the "little giant," as he was known, spent many long hours talking to Lincoln about how best to preserve the Union — and compromise wasn't part of the picture. … "You do not know the <a href="/wiki/Dishonest" class="mw-redirect" title="Dishonest">dishonest</a> <a href="/wiki/Purposes" class="mw-redirect" title="Purposes">purposes</a> of those men as I do," he told Lincoln.<br />What both of those great politicians understood by then was that there may be better angels in the <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> of some people, but there are others who are willing to weaken, even destroy a <a href="/wiki/Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation">nation</a> to serve their own <a href="/wiki/Self-righteous" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-righteous">self-righteous</a> <a href="/wiki/Self-interest" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-interest">self-interest</a>, and they will do it in the <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution">Constitution</a>. If Obama hasn't learned that yet, perhaps it's time he did. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dickey" class="extiw" title="w:Christopher Dickey">Christopher Dickey</a>, "Better Angels and Killer Angels", <i>Newsweek</i> (10 November 2010).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is the question now placed before <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a> an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Benjamin Disraeli</a>, speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference. Nov. 25, 1864.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In merest <a href="/wiki/Prudence" title="Prudence">prudence</a> men should teach<br />* * * * * *<br />That <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> ranks as monstrous things<br />Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings—<br />E'en Angel's wings! — are fictions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Dobson" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin Dobson">Austin Dobson</a>, <i>A Fairy Tale</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a>, too, was very near to them in those days. <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s direct agency was to be seen in the <a href="/wiki/Thunder" title="Thunder">thunder</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainbow">rainbow</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Whirlwind" class="mw-redirect" title="Whirlwind">whirlwind</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lightning" title="Lightning">lightning</a>. To the <a href="/wiki/Believer" class="mw-redirect" title="Believer">believer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clouds" title="Clouds">clouds</a> of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the <a href="/wiki/Saints" title="Saints">sainted</a> and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>, raising, encouraging, and supporting them. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Company" class="extiw" title="w:The White Company">The White Company</a></i> (1891).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let old Timotheus yield the prize<br />Or both divide the crown;<br /><b>He rais'd a mortal to the skies<br />She drew an angel down.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, <i>Alexander's Feast</i> (1697), Last Stanza</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicolae_Vermont_-_Visul_lui_Ulise.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Nicolae_Vermont_-_Visul_lui_Ulise.jpg/220px-Nicolae_Vermont_-_Visul_lui_Ulise.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Nicolae_Vermont_-_Visul_lui_Ulise.jpg/330px-Nicolae_Vermont_-_Visul_lui_Ulise.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Nicolae_Vermont_-_Visul_lui_Ulise.jpg 2x" data-file-width="382" data-file-height="275" /></a><figcaption>When <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> has sent his angel to me, then I know of a surety. … When God sends his angel to the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> it becomes the one who <a href="/wiki/Knows" class="mw-redirect" title="Knows">knows</a> for sure. ~ <a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg/220px-Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg/330px-Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg/440px-Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2475" data-file-height="3223" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> at its highest is formed like <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, but an angel gives a closer <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~ <a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hoag%27s_object.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/220px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/330px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/440px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1521" data-file-height="1489" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">Knowledge</a> comes through likeness. And so because the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> may know <a href="/wiki/Cosmos" title="Cosmos">everything</a>, it is never at <a href="/wiki/Rest" title="Rest">rest</a> until it comes to the original <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/The_All" title="The All">all things are one</a>. And there it comes to rest in <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>When <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> has sent his angel to me, then I know of a surety. … When God sends his angel to the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> it becomes the one who <a href="/wiki/Knows" class="mw-redirect" title="Knows">knows</a> for sure.</b> Not for <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a> did God give the keys into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter" class="extiw" title="w:Saint Peter">St. Peter</a>'s keeping, for Peter stands for <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a>, and knowledge is the <a href="/wiki/Key" title="Key">key</a> that unlocks the <a href="/wiki/Door" title="Door">door</a>, presses forward and breaks in, to discover God as he is. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a>, in Sermon 9, as translated in <i>The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church</i> (1999) by Hughes Oliphant Old, Chapter 9 : The German Mystics, p. 448.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. And it may well be true, for the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. <b>That is all an angel is: an <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>.</b> For this <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a> the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived. <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">Knowledge</a> comes through likeness. <b>And so because the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> may know <a href="/wiki/Cosmos" title="Cosmos">everything</a>, it is never at <a href="/wiki/Rest" title="Rest">rest</a> until it comes to the original <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/The_All" title="The All">all things are one</a>. And there it comes to rest in <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a>, in Sermon 9, as translated in <i>The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church</i> (1999) by Hughes Oliphant Old, Chapter 9 : The German Mystics, p. 449.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The golden moments in the stream of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a> in "Janet's Repentance", <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_of_Clerical_Life" class="extiw" title="w:Scenes of Clerical Life">Scenes of Clerical Life</a></i> (1857).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In old days there were angels who came and took men by the <a href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a> and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little <a href="/wiki/Child" class="mw-redirect" title="Child">child</a>'s. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Marner" class="extiw" title="w:Silas Marner">Silas Marner</a></i> (1861), Chapter 14.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is 3 over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Enoch" class="extiw" title="w:The Book of Enoch">The Book of Enoch</a> ch.20 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_1.HTM">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blake_jacobsladder.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Blake_jacobsladder.jpg/220px-Blake_jacobsladder.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Blake_jacobsladder.jpg/330px-Blake_jacobsladder.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Blake_jacobsladder.jpg/440px-Blake_jacobsladder.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3564" data-file-height="4536" /></a><figcaption>How wonderful it must be to speak the <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> of the angels, with no <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hate" class="mw-redirect" title="Hate">hate</a> and a million words for <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>! ~ <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Frankl" title="Viktor Frankl">Viktor Frankl</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Engel_auf_dem_Friedhof.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Engel_auf_dem_Friedhof.jpg/220px-Engel_auf_dem_Friedhof.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Engel_auf_dem_Friedhof.jpg/330px-Engel_auf_dem_Friedhof.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Engel_auf_dem_Friedhof.jpg/440px-Engel_auf_dem_Friedhof.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1704" data-file-height="2272" /></a><figcaption>Angels are all around us, <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> the <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, in the very <a href="/wiki/Air" title="Air">air</a> we breathe. ~ <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eileen_Elias_Freeman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eileen Elias Freeman (page does not exist)">Eileen Elias Freeman</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>“Perhaps you could tell me how many angels may stand on the point of a pin?”…<br />De Salcedo snorted. “I’ll tell you. Philosophically speaking, you may put as many angels on a pinhead as you want to. Actually speaking, you may put only as many as there is room for. Enough of that. I'm interested in facts, not fancies.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer" title="Philip José Farmer">Philip José Farmer</a>, <i>Sail On! Sail On!</i> Originally published in the December 1952 issue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startling_Stories" class="extiw" title="w:Startling Stories">Startling Stories</a>; reprinted in <a href="/wiki/Harry_Harrison" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Harrison">Harry Harrison</a> (ed.), <i>SF: Author’s Choice,</i> (1968), p. 140. The ellipsis represents elision of one paragraph of description.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Angels shine from without because their <a href="/wiki/Spirits" class="mw-redirect" title="Spirits">spirits</a> are lit from within by the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman, in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994), p. 4, <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0446671215" title="Special:BookSources/0446671215">ISBN 0446671215</a> </small></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Angels can fly lightly because they take <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> seriously. <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman, in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994), p. 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman, in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the <a href="/wiki/Help" title="Help">help</a> your angel has given you. <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman, in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Pay attention to your <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> — God's angels often speak directly to our <a href="/wiki/Hearts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearts">hearts</a> when we are asleep. <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a> is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. <b>Only the Weaver sees the whole design.</b> <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">Light</a>. <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If angels rarely <a href="/wiki/Appear" class="mw-redirect" title="Appear">appear</a>, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message.</b> <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Angels are all around us, <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> the <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, in the very <a href="/wiki/Air" title="Air">air</a> we breathe.</b> <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>When babies look beyond you and <a href="/wiki/Giggle" class="mw-redirect" title="Giggle">giggle</a>, maybe they're seeing angels.</b> <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>How wonderful it must be to speak the <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> of the angels, with no <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hate" class="mw-redirect" title="Hate">hate</a> and a million words for <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>!</b> <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! <ul><li>Eileen Elias Freeman in <i>The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers</i> (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> transfixed me: for the first time in my <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> I saw the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> as it is set into <a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">song</a> by so many <a href="/wiki/Poets" title="Poets">poets</a>, proclaimed as the final <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a> by so many thinkers. The truth — that <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. </b>Then I grasped the <a href="/wiki/Meaning" title="Meaning">meaning</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Greatest" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest">greatest</a> <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> that <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> and human thought and <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> have to impart:<b> <i>The salvation of <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a> is through <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> and in love.</i> </b>… For the first <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>,<b> "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a> <a href="/wiki/Glory" title="Glory">glory</a>." </b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Frankl" title="Viktor Frankl">Viktor Frankl</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning" title="Man's Search for Meaning">Man's Search for Meaning</a></i> (1946; 1959).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Sons_of_God_Saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_That_They_Were_Fair,_by_Daniel_Chester_French,_modeled_by_1918,_carved_1923_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01065.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/The_Sons_of_God_Saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_That_They_Were_Fair%2C_by_Daniel_Chester_French%2C_modeled_by_1918%2C_carved_1923_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01065.JPG/200px-The_Sons_of_God_Saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_That_They_Were_Fair%2C_by_Daniel_Chester_French%2C_modeled_by_1918%2C_carved_1923_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01065.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/The_Sons_of_God_Saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_That_They_Were_Fair%2C_by_Daniel_Chester_French%2C_modeled_by_1918%2C_carved_1923_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01065.JPG/300px-The_Sons_of_God_Saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_That_They_Were_Fair%2C_by_Daniel_Chester_French%2C_modeled_by_1918%2C_carved_1923_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01065.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/The_Sons_of_God_Saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_That_They_Were_Fair%2C_by_Daniel_Chester_French%2C_modeled_by_1918%2C_carved_1923_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01065.JPG/400px-The_Sons_of_God_Saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_That_They_Were_Fair%2C_by_Daniel_Chester_French%2C_modeled_by_1918%2C_carved_1923_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01065.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3240" data-file-height="4320" /></a><figcaption>When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years." At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth (as well as later), after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. ~ Genesis 6:1-4</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years." At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth (as well as later), after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>Genesis 6:1-4</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>Angels have no back to their necks, and cannot turn their heads round. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Rabbah" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Genesis Rabbah">Genesis Rabbah</a> 49</i>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/tmm07.htm">Tales and Maxims from the Midrash</a></i> by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 80</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One angel cannot perform two duties at a time, nor are two angels sent to perform one and the same duty. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Rabbah" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Genesis Rabbah">Genesis Rabbah</a> 50</i>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/tmm07.htm">Tales and Maxims from the Midrash</a></i> by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 80-81</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Non Angli, sed Angeli.<br />Not Angles, but Angels. <ul><li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Gregory_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Gregory the Great">Gregory the Great</a> on seeing British captives for sale at Rome.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sultan_Ibrahim_ibn_Adham_of_Balkh_visited_by_angels1009_IP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Sultan_Ibrahim_ibn_Adham_of_Balkh_visited_by_angels1009_IP.jpg/220px-Sultan_Ibrahim_ibn_Adham_of_Balkh_visited_by_angels1009_IP.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Sultan_Ibrahim_ibn_Adham_of_Balkh_visited_by_angels1009_IP.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="270" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_ibn_Adham" class="extiw" title="w:Ibrahim ibn Adham">Abou Ben Adhem</a> (may his tribe increase!) <br /> Awoke one night from a deep <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> of <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>… ~ <a href="/wiki/Leigh_Hunt" title="Leigh Hunt">Leigh Hunt</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>From the east to the west sped the angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light with both their hands. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rider_Haggard" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Rider Haggard">Henry Rider Haggard</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:She (novel)">She</a></i> (1887).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Unbless'd thy <a href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a>! — if in this low disguise<br />Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the <a href="/wiki/Skies" class="mw-redirect" title="Skies">skies</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i>Odyssey</i>, Book XVII, line 570. Pope's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_ibn_Adham" class="extiw" title="w:Ibrahim ibn Adham">Abou Ben Adhem</a> (may his tribe increase!)</b> <br /> Awoke one night from a deep <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> of <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>, <br /> And saw, within the moonlight in his room, <br /> Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, <br /> <b>An <a href="/wiki/Angel" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel">Angel</a> <a href="/wiki/Writing" title="Writing">writing</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Book" class="mw-redirect" title="Book">book</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a>…</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leigh_Hunt" title="Leigh Hunt">Leigh Hunt</a>, in "Abou Ben Adhem" (or "Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel"), in <i>The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt</i> (1846).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"If 'it is good for a man not to touch a woman', then it is bad for him to touch one, for bad, and bad only, is the opposite of good. But, if though bad, it is made venial, then it is allowed to prevent something which would be worse than bad. ... Notice the Apostle's carefulness. He does not say: 'It is good not to have a wife', but, 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman'. ... I am not expounding the law as to husbands and wives, but discussing the general question of sexual intercourse – how in comparison with chastity and virginity, the life of angels, 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman'. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome">Jerome</a> (c. 347 – 420), commenting on Paul's letter to the Corinthians, "NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome". CCEL. Retrieved 7 November 2016 – via Google Books.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, Matthew 22:30 (NIV).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis" title="Nikos Kazantzakis">Nikos Kazantzakis</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ" class="extiw" title="w:The Last Temptation of Christ">The Last Temptation of Christ</a></i> (1951), Ch. 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On that very night the angel of <a href="/wiki/Jehovah" title="Jehovah">Jehovah</a> went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the As·syr′i·ans. When people rose up early in the morning, they saw all the dead bodies. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/2-kings/19/">2 Kings 19:35</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gabriele.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Gabriele.jpg/220px-Gabriele.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Gabriele.jpg/330px-Gabriele.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Gabriele.jpg/440px-Gabriele.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1002" data-file-height="1276" /></a><figcaption>If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> I <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a> many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. ~ <a href="/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg" title="Georg Christoph Lichtenberg">Georg Christoph Lichtenberg</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AnttlersNewM45.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/AnttlersNewM45.jpg/220px-AnttlersNewM45.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/AnttlersNewM45.jpg/330px-AnttlersNewM45.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/AnttlersNewM45.jpg/440px-AnttlersNewM45.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1737" data-file-height="1160" /></a><figcaption>Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a>,<br />Blossomed the lovely <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">stars</a>, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~ <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Universeglass.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Universeglass.JPG/220px-Universeglass.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Universeglass.JPG/330px-Universeglass.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Universeglass.JPG/440px-Universeglass.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>But all <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s angels come to us disguised:<br />[...]<br /><a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">All</a> radiant with the <a href="/wiki/Glory" title="Glory">glory</a> and the calm<br />Of having looked upon the front of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a></i> 20:35-36, NKJV</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a>; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a></i> 7:28, NKJV</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Through the dim and lonely forest<br />Comes a low sweet sound,<br />Like the whispering of angels<br />To the greenwood round,<br />Bearing through the hours of midnight,<br />On their viewless wings,<br />Music in its measure telling<br />High and holy things. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, <i>Forget Me Not, 1839</i> (1838 posthumous), 'Alice Lee'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> I <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a> many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg" title="Georg Christoph Lichtenberg">Georg Christoph Lichtenberg</a>, <i>Aphorisms</i> (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771), B 44. This quote comes from Wikiquote's Lichtenberg <i>Aphorisms</i> section which was begun primarily with translations by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Hollingdale" class="extiw" title="w:R. J. Hollingdale">R. J. Hollingdale</a>, augmented by other sources, including <i>Selected Writings of Georg C. Lichtenberg</i> (1893) edited by Adolf Wilbrandt.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Mystic" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystic">mystic</a> chords of <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a>, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> and hearthstone all over this broad <a href="/wiki/Land" title="Land">land</a>, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, closing of <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_First_Inaugural_Address" class="extiw" title="s:Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address">First Inaugural Address</a> (4 March 1861).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Silently, one by one, in the <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a> meadows of <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a>,<br />Blossomed the lovely <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">stars</a>, the forget-me-nots of the angels.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline" class="extiw" title="w:Evangeline"> Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie</a></i> (1847).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If I have freedom in my love,<br />And in my soul am free,<br />Angels alone that soar above<br />Enjoy such liberty.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lovelace" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lovelace">Richard Lovelace</a>, <i>Lucasta</i> <i>To Althea: From Prison</i>, st. 4.(1649).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>But all <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s angels come to us disguised</b>:<br /><a href="/wiki/Sorrow" title="Sorrow">Sorrow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sickness" class="mw-redirect" title="Sickness">sickness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>,<br />One after other lift their frowning <a href="/wiki/Masks" class="mw-redirect" title="Masks">masks</a>,<br />And we behold the Seraph's <a href="/wiki/Face" class="mw-redirect" title="Face">face</a> beneath,<br /><b><a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">All</a> radiant with the <a href="/wiki/Glory" title="Glory">glory</a> and the calm<br />Of having looked upon the front of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, <i>On the Death of a Friend's Child</i>, line 21.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Walter_Crane_-_The_Roll_of_Fate_(1882).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Walter_Crane_-_The_Roll_of_Fate_%281882%29.jpg/220px-Walter_Crane_-_The_Roll_of_Fate_%281882%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Walter_Crane_-_The_Roll_of_Fate_%281882%29.jpg/330px-Walter_Crane_-_The_Roll_of_Fate_%281882%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Walter_Crane_-_The_Roll_of_Fate_%281882%29.jpg/440px-Walter_Crane_-_The_Roll_of_Fate_%281882%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1010" data-file-height="1091" /></a><figcaption>If men were angels, no <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> would be <a href="/wiki/Necessary" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary">necessary</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Psych%C3%A9.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Psych%C3%A9.jpg/220px-Psych%C3%A9.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="324" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Psych%C3%A9.jpg/330px-Psych%C3%A9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Psych%C3%A9.jpg/440px-Psych%C3%A9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1303" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent revelrie<br />You're in the arms of the Angel; may you find some <a href="/wiki/Comfort" title="Comfort">comfort</a> here. ~ <a href="/wiki/Sarah_McLachlan" title="Sarah McLachlan">Sarah McLachlan</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cloches_du_soir.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Cloches_du_soir.jpg/220px-Cloches_du_soir.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="328" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Cloches_du_soir.jpg/330px-Cloches_du_soir.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Cloches_du_soir.jpg/440px-Cloches_du_soir.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2373" data-file-height="3543" /></a><figcaption> Millions of spiritual creatures walk the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a><br />Unseen, both when we wake and when we <a href="/wiki/Sleep" title="Sleep">sleep</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a></i> 22:30, NKJV</li></ul></li> <li>Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/legion" class="extiw" title="w:legion">legions</a> of angels</b>? 54 How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?” <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a></i> 26:53, NKJV (see also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biblehub.com/interlinear/matthew/26.htm">Interlinear Bible</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.</b> A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._51" class="extiw" title="w:Federalist No. 51">Federalist No. 51</a></i> (6 February 1788) <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers/No._51_Full_text_at_Wikisource" class="extiw" title="s:The Federalist Papers/No. 51 Full text at Wikisource">s:The_Federalist_Papers/No._51 Full text at Wikisource</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In this dim world of clouding cares,<br />We rarely know, till 'wildered <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a><br />See white wings lessening up the <a href="/wiki/Skies" class="mw-redirect" title="Skies">skies</a>,<br />The Angels with us unawares. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Massey" title="Gerald Massey">Gerald Massey</a>, <i>The Ballad of Babe Christabel</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the arms of the Angel<br />Far away from here<br />From this <a href="/wiki/Dark" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark">dark</a>, cold hotel room, And the <a href="/wiki/Endlessness" class="mw-redirect" title="Endlessness">endlessness</a> that you <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a><br />You are pulled from the wreckage of your <a href="/wiki/Silent" class="mw-redirect" title="Silent">silent</a> revelrie<br />You're in the arms of the Angel; may you find some <a href="/wiki/Comfort" title="Comfort">comfort</a> here. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_McLachlan" title="Sarah McLachlan">Sarah McLachlan</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Sarah_McLachlan_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Angel (Sarah McLachlan song)">Angel</a>" from <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfacing_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Surfacing (album)">Surfacing</a></i> (1997); also used in <i><a href="/wiki/City_of_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Angels">City of Angels</a></i> (1998) - (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDkcJ-62uuY">Video performance at YouTube</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j42ApkIIdNc"><i>City of Angels</i> video at YouTube</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>...indeed, if there were any modesty left in mankind, the histories of the Bible might abundantly assure men of the existence of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">angels</a> and spirits... I look upon it as a special piece of Providence that . . . fresh examples of apparitions may awaken our benumbed and lethargic minds into an assurance that there are other intelligent beings besides those that are clothed in heavy earth or clay . . . for this evidence, showing that there are bad spirits, will necessarily open a door to the belief that there are good ones, and lastly, that there is a <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_More" title="Henry More">Henry More</a>, quoted by <a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, in <i>Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology,</i> (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O welcome, pure-eyed <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">Faith</a>, white-handed <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">Hope</a>,<br />Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Comus" class="mw-redirect" title="Comus">Comus</a></i> (1634).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As far as angel's ken. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i> (1667; 1674), Book I, line 59.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> will deign<br />To visit oft the dwellings of just men<br />Delighted, and with frequent intercourse<br />Thither will send his winged messengers<br />On errants of supernal <a href="/wiki/Grace" title="Grace">grace</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i> (1667; 1674), Book VII, line 569.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Millions of spiritual creatures walk the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a><br />Unseen, both when we wake and when we <a href="/wiki/Sleep" title="Sleep">sleep</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a> (1667; 1674).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How sweetly did they float upon the wings<br />Of <a href="/wiki/Silence" title="Silence">silence</a> through the empty-vaulted <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a>,<br />At every fall smoothing the raven down<br />Of <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a> till it smiled! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Comus_(John_Milton)" title="Comus (John Milton)">Comus</a></i> (1637), line 249.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The helmed Cherubim,<br />And <a href="/wiki/Sword" title="Sword">sworded</a> Seraphim,<br />Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i>Hymn on the Nativity</i>, line 112.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Death makes angels of us all<br />& gives us wings<br />where we had shoulders<br />smooth as raven's<br />claws</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Morrison" title="Jim Morrison">Jim Morrison</a>, <i>An American Prayer</i> (1978).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now the two angels arrived at Sod′om by evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sod′om. When Lot caught sight of them, then he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the earth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Genesis" title="Genesis">Genesis</a>, 19:1, <a href="/wiki/New_World_Translation" class="mw-redirect" title="New World Translation">New World Translation</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Then too when angel voices sung<br />The <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">mercy</a> of their <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, and strung<br />Their harps to hail, with welcome sweet,<br />That moment watched for by all <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a>, <i>Loves of the Angels</i>, Third Angel's Story</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Narrated Abu Talha: <br /> The Prophet said, "Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or there are pictures". <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a> as quoted in <i><a href="/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahih al-Bukhari">Sahih al-Bukhari</a></i>, volume 7, book 72, number 833</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A certain scripture mentions that humans are superior to angels. Why? Because there are people who know of evil but do not become evil. It's different from angels, who know only of good since birth. Humans have evil, but can live as good, so they are superior to angels, who know only good. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinoko_Nasu" class="extiw" title="w:Kinoko Nasu">Kinoko Nasu</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/stay_night" class="extiw" title="w:Fate/stay night">Fate/stay night</a></i>, in lines for Kirei Kotomine</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We must not suppose that it is the result of chance that a particular duty is assigned to a particular angel; the work of curing and healing, for instance, to Raphael; the supervising of wars to <a href="/wiki/Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a>; the task of attending to the prayers and supplications of mortals to <a href="/wiki/Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">Michael</a>. We must believe that they have obtained their duties for no other reason except their own individual <a href="/wiki/Merit" title="Merit">merits</a> and that they entered upon them as a reward for the zeal and virtue they displayed before the construction of this world; after which event this or that kind of duty was assigned to each member of the order of archangels, while others were counted worthy of being enrolled in the order of angels and to act under this or that archangel, or under this or that leader or chief of his order. All this, as we have said was arranged not by chance or at random, but by the most appropriate and righteous judgment of God, being settled in accordance with merit, God himself deciding and approving. p. 85, Chapter VIII, Angels. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origen" title="Origen">Origen</a>, <i>On First Principles</i> based on G. W. Butterworth’s 1936 English translation, Christian Classics, Notre Dame, (1980) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/origen-on-first-principles">[Full text</a>]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No angelic office, therefore, exists except as a reward of merit, nor do authorities wield their authority except as a result of their progress, nor do those who are called thrones, that is, authorities for judging and ruling, administer their functions except as a reward of merit, nor do the dominions exercise dominion but by merit; for this supreme and most excellent order of rational creatures in the heavenly places is thus arranged in a glorious variety of offices. p. 89 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origen" title="Origen">Origen</a>, <i>On First Principles</i> based on G. W. Butterworth’s 1936 English translation, Christian Classics, Notre Dame, (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_busqueda_del_angel..._(257576369).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/La_busqueda_del_angel..._%28257576369%29.jpg/220px-La_busqueda_del_angel..._%28257576369%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/La_busqueda_del_angel..._%28257576369%29.jpg/330px-La_busqueda_del_angel..._%28257576369%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/La_busqueda_del_angel..._%28257576369%29.jpg/440px-La_busqueda_del_angel..._%28257576369%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Be not forgetful to entertain <a href="/wiki/Strangers" title="Strangers">strangers</a>: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ~ <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Empyrean_Light.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Empyrean_Light.jpg/220px-Empyrean_Light.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Empyrean_Light.jpg/330px-Empyrean_Light.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Empyrean_Light.jpg/440px-Empyrean_Light.jpg 2x" data-file-width="858" data-file-height="952" /></a><figcaption>Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>We <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this <a href="/wiki/Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Page_(Virginia_politician)" class="extiw" title="w:John Page (Virginia politician)">John Page</a>, about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" class="extiw" title="w:American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> in a letter to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>; quoted in <i>Angel in the Whirlwind</i> (1997) by Benson Bobrick.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Be not forgetful to entertain <a href="/wiki/Strangers" title="Strangers">strangers</a>: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bible.cc/hebrews/13-2.htm"><i>Hebrews</i> 13:2</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized_King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:Authorized King James Version">KJV</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fools" title="Fools">Fools</a> rush in where angels <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> to tread. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/An_Essay_on_Criticism" title="An Essay on Criticism">An Essay on Criticism</a></i> (1711).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">Men</a> would be angels, angels would be <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">gods</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>An Essay on Man</i> (1733-34), Epistle I, line 126.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frans_Francken_II_(workshop)_Saint_Cecilia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Frans_Francken_II_%28workshop%29_Saint_Cecilia.jpg/220px-Frans_Francken_II_%28workshop%29_Saint_Cecilia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Frans_Francken_II_%28workshop%29_Saint_Cecilia.jpg/330px-Frans_Francken_II_%28workshop%29_Saint_Cecilia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Frans_Francken_II_%28workshop%29_Saint_Cecilia.jpg/440px-Frans_Francken_II_%28workshop%29_Saint_Cecilia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2680" data-file-height="3460" /></a><figcaption>Surely those who <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a> not in the <a href="/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife">Hereafter</a> <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a> the angels with <a href="/wiki/Female" class="mw-redirect" title="Female">female</a> names. And they have no <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> of it. They follow but conjecture, and surely conjecture avails naught against <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>They swear their strongest oaths by Allah, that if a (special) sign came to them, by it they would believe. Say: "Certainly (all) signs are in the power of Allah: but what will make you (Muslims) realise that (even) if (special) signs came, they will not believe"? We (too) shall turn to (confusion) their hearts and their eyes, even as they refused to believe in this in the first instance: We shall leave them in their trespasses, to wander in distraction. <b>Even if We did send unto them angels, and the dead did speak unto them, and We gathered together all things before their very eyes, they are not the ones to believe, unless it is in Allah's plan. But most of them ignore</b> (the truth). Likewise did We make for every Messenger an enemy,- evil ones among men and jinns, inspiring each other with flowery discourses by way of deception. If thy Lord had so planned, they would not have done it: so leave them and their inventions alone. To such (deceit) let the hearts of those incline, who have no faith in the hereafter: let them delight in it, and let them earn from it what they may. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>, chapter 6: 109-113</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Or did We create the angels females, while they witnessed?</b> Now surely it is of their own lie that they say: Allah has begotten. And truly they are liars. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>, chapter 37: 150-152</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And how many angels are in the heavens, whose intercession avails naught except after Allah gives permission to whom He pleases and chooses. Surely those who believe not in the Hereafter name the angels with female names. And they have no knowledge of it. They follow but conjecture, and surely conjecture avails naught against Truth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>, chapter 53: 26-28</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,<br />Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rogers" title="Samuel Rogers">Samuel Rogers</a>, <i>Human Life</i>, line 353.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Why should I fear? When was I less by <a href="/wiki/Dying" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying">dying</a>? <b><br />Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar<br />With angels blest; but even from angelhood<br />I must pass on: all except <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> doth perish.<br /></b>When I have <a href="/wiki/Sacrificed" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacrificed">sacrificed</a> my angel-<a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>,<br />I shall become what no <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> e'er conceived.<br />Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence<br />Proclaims in organ tones, <i>To Him we shall return.</i><b></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi">Rumi</a>, "I Died as a Mineral", as translated in <i>The Mystics of Islam</i> (1914) edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, p. 125.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_(obverse)_-_WGA2572.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_%28obverse%29_-_WGA2572.jpg/200px-Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_%28obverse%29_-_WGA2572.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="392" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_%28obverse%29_-_WGA2572.jpg/300px-Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_%28obverse%29_-_WGA2572.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_%28obverse%29_-_WGA2572.jpg/400px-Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_%28obverse%29_-_WGA2572.jpg 2x" data-file-width="663" data-file-height="1300" /></a><figcaption>Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Glassmaleri_Marmorkirken.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Glassmaleri_Marmorkirken.jpg/200px-Glassmaleri_Marmorkirken.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Glassmaleri_Marmorkirken.jpg/300px-Glassmaleri_Marmorkirken.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Glassmaleri_Marmorkirken.jpg/400px-Glassmaleri_Marmorkirken.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1950" data-file-height="1948" /></a><figcaption>Angels never attack, as <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">infernal</a> <a href="/wiki/Spirits" class="mw-redirect" title="Spirits">spirits</a> do. Angels only ward off and <a href="/wiki/Protection" title="Protection">defend</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg" title="Emanuel Swedenborg">Emanuel Swedenborg</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>All angel now, and little less than all,<br />While still a pilgrim in this world of ours.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>, <i>Lord of the Isles</i>, referring to Harriet, Duchess of Buccleugh</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (1605), Act IV, scene 3, line 22.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a> an angel is nobody in particular.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_and_Superman" class="extiw" title="w:Man and Superman">Man and Superman : A Comedy and a Philosophy</a></i> (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists : Greatness".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">Good</a> <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a>, sweet prince, and flights of angels <a href="/wiki/Sing" class="mw-redirect" title="Sing">sing</a> thee to thy <a href="/wiki/Rest" title="Rest">rest</a>! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet, Prince of Denmark</a></i> (<i>c</i>.1600), Act V, scene 2, line 371.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I charge thee, fling away <a href="/wiki/Ambition" title="Ambition">ambition</a>: by that <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a> fell the angels. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, lines spoken by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Wolsey">Wolsey</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_(play)" class="extiw" title="w:Henry VIII (play)">Henry VIII</a></i> [originally titled <i>All is True</i>](1613)</li></ul></li> <li>How oft do they their silver bowers leave<br />To come to succour us that succour want! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>, <i>The Faerie Queene</i> (1589-96), Book II, Canto VIII, Stanza 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Around our pillows golden ladders rise,<br />And up and down the skies,<br />With winged sandals shod,<br />The angels come, and go, the Messengers of God!<br />Nor, though they fade from us, do they depart—<br />It is the childly <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a><br />We walk as heretofore,<br />Adown their shining ranks, but see them nevermore. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=R._H._Stoddard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. H. Stoddard (page does not exist)">R. H. Stoddard</a>, <i>Hymn to the Beautiful</i>, Stanza 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sweet <a href="/wiki/Souls" class="mw-redirect" title="Souls">souls</a> around us watch us still,<br />Press nearer to our side;<br />Into our <a href="/wiki/Thoughts" class="mw-redirect" title="Thoughts">thoughts</a>, into our <a href="/wiki/Prayers" class="mw-redirect" title="Prayers">prayers</a>,<br />With gentle helpings glide. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe" title="Harriet Beecher Stowe">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a>, <i>The Other World</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Angels never attack, as <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">infernal</a> <a href="/wiki/Spirits" class="mw-redirect" title="Spirits">spirits</a> do. Angels only ward off and <a href="/wiki/Protection" title="Protection">defend</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg" title="Emanuel Swedenborg">Emanuel Swedenborg</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcana_Coelestia" class="extiw" title="w:Arcana Coelestia">Arcana Coelestia</a></i> (1749 - 1756) translated as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/swd/ac/index.htm">"Heavenly Secrets" #1683</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Teresabernini.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Teresabernini.JPG/220px-Teresabernini.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Teresabernini.JPG/330px-Teresabernini.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Teresabernini.JPG/440px-Teresabernini.JPG 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>Though I have <a href="/wiki/Visions" title="Visions">visions</a> of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision … Their <a href="/wiki/Names" title="Names">names</a> they never tell me; but I see very well that there is in <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a> so <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> a difference between one angel and another, and between these and the others, that I cannot explain it. ~ <a href="/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila" title="Teresa of Ávila">Teresa of Ávila</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. This I am not accustomed to see, unless very rarely. Though I have <a href="/wiki/Visions" title="Visions">visions</a> of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision, such as I have spoken of before. It was our Lord's will that in this vision I should see the angel in this wise. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful — his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a>: they must be those whom we call cherubim. <b>Their <a href="/wiki/Names" title="Names">names</a> they never tell me; but I see very well that there is in <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a> so <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> a difference between one angel and another, and between these and the others, that I cannot explain it.</b> <ul><li>Saint <a href="/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila" title="Teresa of Ávila">Teresa of Ávila</a>, <i>The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus</i> (c.1565).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have no angels left<br />Now, Sweet, to pray to:<br />Where you have made your shrine<br />They are away to.<br />They have struck Heaven's tent,<br />And gone to cover you:<br />Whereso you keep your state<br />Heaven is pitched over you. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Thompson" title="Francis Thompson">Francis Thompson</a>, <i>A Carrier Song</i>, Stanza 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There is no <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a> why <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> cannot triumph as often as <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan" class="extiw" title="w:The Sirens of Titan">The Sirens of Titan</a></i> (1959).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Amandus_Faure_Gasse_in_Neapel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Amandus_Faure_Gasse_in_Neapel.jpg/220px-Amandus_Faure_Gasse_in_Neapel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Amandus_Faure_Gasse_in_Neapel.jpg/330px-Amandus_Faure_Gasse_in_Neapel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Amandus_Faure_Gasse_in_Neapel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="391" data-file-height="550" /></a><figcaption>Outside the open window<br />The <a href="/wiki/Morning" title="Morning">morning</a> <a href="/wiki/Air" title="Air">air</a> is all awash with angels. ~ <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wilbur" title="Richard Wilbur">Richard Wilbur</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Evelyn_De_Morgan_-_Angel_of_Death.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Evelyn_De_Morgan_-_Angel_of_Death.jpg/200px-Evelyn_De_Morgan_-_Angel_of_Death.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Evelyn_De_Morgan_-_Angel_of_Death.jpg/300px-Evelyn_De_Morgan_-_Angel_of_Death.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Evelyn_De_Morgan_-_Angel_of_Death.jpg/400px-Evelyn_De_Morgan_-_Angel_of_Death.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8022" data-file-height="10749" /></a><figcaption>Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in <a href="/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a>. Would you ever really want to see an angel? ~ Gregory Widen, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prophecy" title="The Prophecy">The Prophecy</a></i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I'll help you. I'm an angel. <ul><li>Monica, played by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Downey" class="extiw" title="w:Roma Downey">Roma Downey</a> in the first episode of <a href="/wiki/Touched_By_An_Angel#Southbound_Bus_.5B1.1.5D" class="mw-redirect" title="Touched By An Angel"><i>Touched By An Angel</i> : "Southbound Bus"</a> (1994), written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Williamson" class="extiw" title="w:Martha Williamson">Martha Williamson</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a>, "Mr Siegal" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartattack_and_Vine" class="extiw" title="w:Heartattack and Vine">Heartattack and Vine</a></i> (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Could we forbear dispute, and practise <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>,<br />We should agree as angels do above.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Waller" title="Edmund Waller">Edmund Waller</a>, in "Of Divine Love" (<i>c</i>. 1686)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Gabriel</b>: I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.</li> <li><b>Thomas Daggett</b>: Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>Gregory Widen, <a href="/wiki/The_Prophecy" title="The Prophecy">The Prophecy</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>Outside the open window<br />The <a href="/wiki/Morning" title="Morning">morning</a> air is all awash with angels. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Wilbur" title="Richard Wilbur">Richard Wilbur</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171793">"Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World"</a>, from <i>Poems</i> (1956)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elie_Wiesel" title="Elie Wiesel">Elie Wiesel</a>, as quoted in Spirituality and Liberation : Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I know a lot of people who don't believe in angels but I've never met a soul that didn't want to believe in them.</b> <ul><li>Tess, played by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Reese" class="extiw" title="w:Della Reese">Della Reese</a> in <a href="/wiki/Touched_By_An_Angel#Interview_With_An_Angel_.5B2.1.5D" class="mw-redirect" title="Touched By An Angel"><i>Touched By An Angel</i> : "Interview With An Angel"</a> (1995) written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Williamson" class="extiw" title="w:Martha Williamson">Martha Williamson</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If there is any thing that keeps the <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> <a href="/wiki/Open-mindedness" title="Open-mindedness">open to</a> angel visits, and repels the <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">ministry of ill</a>, it is <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Parker_Willis" title="Nathaniel Parker Willis">Nathaniel Parker Willis</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA11"><i>Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors</i> (1872) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 11</a>; 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