Angels Quotes

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

Yourself, Win, Cannot

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Men, Art, Alone

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Him

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

Death, Makes, Wings

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine

Men, Humility, Pride

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Heart, Friend, Giving

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine

Women, God, Men

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer

Nature, Men, Human

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy Graham

Courage, Believers, Nearer

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

God, Whether, Known

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.
Saint Francis de Sales

Good, Spiritual, Help

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

Music, Said, Speech

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot

Life, Past, Nothing

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison

Men, Government, Necessary

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo

Human, Become, Suffering

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
Billy Graham

God, Often, Potential

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
Paulo Coelho

Everything, Possible, Demons

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Fear, Fools, Rush

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

Love, Allah, Fire

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov

Peace, Find, Sky

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

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

God, Men, Another

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

Woman, Become, Another

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon

Men, Power, Knowledge

Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
Jaclyn Smith

Made, Find, Unique

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? 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.
James Madison

Nature, Men, Government

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

Men, Best, Pride

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Fear, Fools, Rush

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