Get your own Free Home PageThe angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence
towards us; they regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways,
and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befalls us.
--John Calvin
The name Angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name
of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel,
which is a messenger.
--St. Augustine
Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should
frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.
--St. Francis De Sales
It is very important to pray for others, because when you pray for someone,
an angel goes and sits on the shoulder of that person.
--The Virgin Mary at Medjugorje
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
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to find a place
where we can be alone--and look upon Him present within us.
--St. Teresa of Avila
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In
them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything
exterior, but knows itself through itself.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
The fate of the angels was definitely fixed from the first moment following
on their creation; not as if they had been created in a state of bliss;
but, once created, as is probable, in a state of grace, those among them
who so willed, turned to God by a single act of love securing to them at
once eternal happiness.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
The Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they
are angels.
--St. Augustine
Angels are heavenly, pure, and splendid, and yet have been given us to keep
us company on our way.
--Pope Pius XII
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in
spirit; for, without being seen, they are present within you.
-- St. Francis de Sales
The name Angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name
of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel,
which is a messenger.
--St. Augustine
God has provided for us by appointing His angels to be our teachers and
guides.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
I saw the angels with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when
they departed, I used to weep and wish that they would take me with them.
--St. Joan of Arc
Make yourself familar, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without
being seen, the are present with you.
--St. Francis de Sales
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to find a place
where we can be alone--and look upon Him present within us.
--St. Teresa of Avila
It is a universal Catholic belief that not merely every just man, every
child of grace, but in fact every single human being here upon earth,
whether Christian or non-Christian, whether in grace or in sin, remains
during its entire life under the care of a Guardian Angel.
--Joseph Husslein
Every visible thing in this world is put in charge of an angel.
-- St. Augustine
Angels are spiritual creatures who glorify God without ceasing and
who serve His saving plans for other creatures.
-- Catechism of the Catholic Church
Angels mean messengers and ministers. Their function is to execute the
plan divine providence, even in earthly things.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
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