Angel Quotes
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For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.
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God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
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The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.
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I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.
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I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.
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The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.
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An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."
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I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.
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The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.
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What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.
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In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.
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Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
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I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy.
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I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.
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I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
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Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
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Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heaven's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?
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Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
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Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
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An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.
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I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.
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The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
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And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
