
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
-Hebrews 13:2

"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 alone."-William Blake

"Sweet souls around us still, press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings guide."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing."
-Samuel Rogers

"It is in rugged crisis, in unweariable endurance,
and in aims which put sympathy out of the question,
that the angel is shown."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is wonderful that every angel, in whatever direction he
turns his body and face, sees the Lord in front of him."
-Emanuel Swedenborg

"For he shall give His angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands,
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."
-Psalm 91:11-12

"Outside the open window the morning air is awash with angels."
-Richard Wilbur

"An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by
strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing
within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates."
-Thomas Aquinas

"Angels from friendship gather half their joy."
-Edward Young

"Around our pillows golden ladders rise, and up and down the skies,
with winged sandals shod, the angels come, and go,
the Messengers of God! Nor, they fade from us, do they depart-
-R.H. Stoddard

"To love for the sake of being loved is human,
but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."-Alphonse DeLamartine

"Twice or thrice had I loved thee, before I knew thy face or name.
So in a voice, so in shapeless flame, angels affect us oft,
and worshipped be."-John Donne

"Angels descending, bringing from above, echoes of mercy, whispers of love."
-Fanny J. Crosby

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."-Thomas Caryle

"If I have freedom in my love, and in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above enjoy such liberty."
-Richard Lovelace

"And with the morn, those angel faces smile which I have
loved long since, and lost awhile."-John Henry

"Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, bless this bed that I lie on.
Four corners to my bed, four angels there be spread:
One at the head, one at the feet, and two to guard me while I sleep."
-Author Unknown

"In this dim world of clouding cares, we rarely know, till 'wildered eyes
see white wings lessening up the skies, the Angels with us unawares."-Gerald Massey

"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
-William Shakespeare




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