Quotes about angels

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2]

— Bible

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

— William Blake

The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.

— Lord Byron

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

— Sir John Denham

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

— St. Francis De Sales

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

— Billy Graham

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

— St. Gregory The Great

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

— John Keble

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

— Leo The Great

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

— Martin Luther

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

— John Milton

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

— Jewish Proverb

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

— Albert Schweitzer

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

— George Bernard Shaw

We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.

— Source Unknown

Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.

— Source Unknown

It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

— Voltaire

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.

— Dakin Williams