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Then an angel came from the Temple and called out in a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud, "Use the sickle, for the time has come for you to harvest; the crop is ripe on the earth."
Rev. 14:15 (New Living Translation)
An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.
John of Damascus
It was by faith that Moses commanded the people of Israel to keep the Passover and to sprinkle blood on the doorposts so that the angel of death would not kill their firstborn sons.
Hebrews 11:28 (New Living Translation)
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.
St. Thomas Aquinas
But I am not surprised! Even Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light.
2 Cor. 11:14 (New Living Translation)
I am the Angel of the Sun
Whose flaming wheels began to run
When God 's almighty breath
Said to the darkness and the Night,
Let there be light! and there was light.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When the angel of the Lord finished speaking, the Israelites wept loudly.
Judges 2:4 (New Living Translation)
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
The bed be blest that I lie on.
Four angels to my bed.
Four angels round my head,
One to watch, and one to pray,
And two to bear my soul away.
Thomas Ady - A Candle in the Dark
And I saw another angel flying through the heavens, carrying the everlasting Good News to preach to the people who belong to this world—to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
Revelation 14:6 (New Living Translation)
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
T. L. Cuyler
So a great clamor arose. Some of the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees jumped up to argue that Paul was all right. "We see nothing wrong with him," they shouted. "Perhaps a spirit or an angel spoke to him."
Acts 23:9 (New Living Translation)
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
And God never said to an angel, as he did to his Son,
"Sit in honor at my right hand
until I humble your enemies,
making them a footstool under your feet."
Hebrews 1:13 (New Living Translation)
How shall we tell an angel
From another guest?
How, from the common
Worldly herd,
One of the blest?
Hint of suppressed halo,
Rustle of hidden wings,
Wafture of heavenly frankincense,-
Which is these things?
The old Sphinx smile so subtly:
"I give no golden rule,-
Yet I would warn thee, World:
Treat well
Whom thou call'st fool."
Gertrude Hall
Then Balaam confessed to the angel of the Lord, "I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to block my way. I will go back home if you are against my going." But the angel of the Lord told him, "Go with these men, but you may say only what I tell you to say." So Balaam went on with Balak's officials.
Numbers 22:34-35 (New Living Translation)
Man is neither angel or beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.
Blaise Pascal
... and the angel who has kept me from all harm—may he bless these boys. May they preserve my name and the names of my grandfather Abraham and my father, Isaac. And may they become a mighty nation."
Genesis 48:16 (New Living Translation)
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry to evil, it is pure human love.
N.P.Willis:
Mounted on a mighty angel, he flew,
soaring on the wings of the wind.
Psalm 18:10 (New Living Translation)
Reputation is what men and women think of us,
Character is what God and the angels know of us.
Thomas Paine: submitted by LILREBEL8@aol.com
Then in my dream, the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Yes, I'm listening!' The angel said, 'Look, and you will see that only the streaked, speckled, and spotted males are mating with the females of your flock. For I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
Genesis 31:11-12 (New Living Translation)
I want to be an angel,
And with the angels stand
A crown upon my forehead
A harp within my hand.
Urania Locke Bailey: submitted by Jessica Sutcliffe
For who in all of heaven can compare with the
Lord?
What mightiest angel is anything like the Lord?
Psalm 89:6 (New Living Translation)
To love for the sake of being loved is human,
But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse De Lamartine: submitted by Jessica Sutcliffe
For the Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my offspring. He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a young woman there to be my son's wife.
Genesis 24:7 New Living Translation
Spring bursts today,
For Christ is risen and all the earth’s at play.
…Sing, creatures, sing,
Angels and men and birds, and everything …
Christina G. Rossetti
... but the angel said, "Do not be so surprised. You are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who was crucified. He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead! Look, this is where they laid his body.
Mark 16:6 New Living Translation
Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in their own life. The angel who was their guardian from their earliest moment, the angel who watched their steps and covered their head in the day of peril, the angel who was with them in the valley of the shadow of death, who marked their resting place, who was the first to greet them in the resurrection morning -- what will it be to hold conversation with them, and to learn the history of divine interposition in the individual life, of heavenly cooperation in every work for humanity!
E. G. White Submitted by: Richard Wimer of Wit and Wisdom
Then God heard the boy's cries, and the angel of God called to Hagar from the sky, "Hagar, what's wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy's cries from the place where you laid him.
Genesis 21:17 1 New Living Translation
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other.
Luciano de Crescenzo : Submitted by Lacey Brandt
"All right," the angel said, "I will grant your request. I will not destroy that little village..
Genesis 19:21 - New Living Translation
"Pass in, pass in, " the angels
say,"
"In to the upper doors,
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount paradise
By the stairway of surprise."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Merlin I"
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:18
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs...
Blake: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28:1
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
T. L. Cuyler
Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Judges 6:21
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth."
William Blake The Angel That Presided
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isa. 63:9
To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.
By Joan Wester Anderson Regarding the existence of Angels, Paraphrased and contributed by Marty Greer.
What is man, that thou are mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
and hast crowned him with glory and honor.
Psalm 84: 4 - 5
Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.
Paradise Lost, John Milton
"...There is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
Luke 15:10 - New International Version: Submitted by Marty Greer
It must be affirmed that angels and everything existing, except God, were made by God.
Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Daniel 6:22
When someone dies, an angel is there to meet them at the gates of Heaven to let them know that their life has just begun.
Anonymous Submitted by: Claire Scordo
And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to bring thee these good tidings.
Luke 1: 19
We are all angels with but one wing, And only by embracing each other can we fly.
Anonymous Submitted by: Kristina L. Napoli
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Daniel 6:22
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Revelation 18:1
The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk. VIII, l. 1
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, . . . especially the children of men.
Richard Hooker Submitted by: Jill Stipp and Kristin Cox
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
1st Kings 19:5
Think, In mounting higher,
The angels would press on us, and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XXII
Now there were shepherds in the same part of the country, keeping watch over their sheep by night in the open fields, when suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round them; and they were filled with terror. But the angel said to them, "Put away all fear; for I am bringing you good news of great joy--joy for all the People. For a Saviour who is the Anointed Lord is born to you to-day, in the town of David. And this is the token for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." And immediately there was with the angel a multitude of the army of Heaven praising God and saying, "Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!" Then, as soon as the angels had left them and returned to Heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go over as far as Bethlehem and see this that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."
Luke 2:8-15 Weymouth
Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which
has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can
communicate without speech, in thought.
John of Damascus
For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luke 4:10-11 NIV
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
An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:10-12 NIV
An angel collects all the prayers offered in the synsgogues, weaves them into garlands, and puts them on God's head.
Meir, Exod. R., 21.4, Zohar, Gen., c. 150 A.D.
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth,
The beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
- Petrarch - Submitted by Stacy M Engelbert,
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.
Revelation 12:7 KJV
My future will not copy my fair past,
I wrote that once; and, thinking at my side
My ministering life-angel justified
The word by his appealing look upcast
To the white throne of God, ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet XLIV.
Men ate the bread of angels;
He sent them all the food they could eat.
Psalm 78:25 NIV
There was a pause -- just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
Ronald Firbank Vain Glory, 1915.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Isaiah 6:2 KJV
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge of that thing.
Maimonides (Moses Ben Maimon)
And I saw seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Revelation 8:2 Bible
Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.
Henry Travers to Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life
I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses ... He is the most beautiful of Angels...
Ruzbehan Baqli
Angels appreciate things about you
that you thought no one else ever noticed.
Anonymous: submitted by Kimberly Charette
Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee
All through the night.
Guardian angels God will send thee,
All through the night.
Sir Harold Boulton, All through the night
Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, ''grow! grow!''
TALMUD: submitted by CARMINA
An angel doesn't have to be physical... to touch you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Anonymous: submitted Carmina from México City.
Anonymous: submitted by Kimberly Charette.
Cease every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.
Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope
A man on the street is pointing up to the sky. "Look, An
Angel!" he yells.
Passersby laugh. "You fool, That is only a cloud".
How wonderful it would be to see angels where there are only clouds.
How sad it would be to see only clouds where there are angels.
Anonymous
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