Angel Quotations and Sayings III
"The world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Sometimes you have to be able to look reality in the eye and deny it."
Garrison Keillor
A Mother's Blessing
The joy of God be in thy face,
Joy to all who see thee,
The circle of God around thy neck,
Angels of God shielding thee,
Angels of God shielding thee.
Celtic Prayer
"A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends."
Saint Thomas Aquinas
"In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Lord, keep us safe this night, secure from all our fears:
May Angels guard us while we sleep, till morning light appears."
Jon Leland
"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."
Albert Schweitzer
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
Samuel Smiles
"Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven."
Victor Hugo
"The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above."
Plato
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
When you pass through the waters I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you,
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you."
Isaiah 43:1
"Little girls are born with a little bit of angelshine about them,and though it wears thin sometimes there is also enough left to lasso your heart."
Alan Beck
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
Benjamin Disraeli
"While there's life, there's hope."
Cicero
"We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!"
John Eliot
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you,
till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The power of the visible is the invisible."
Marianne Moore
"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."
St. Francis of Assisi
"To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."
William James
"The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known;
each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone."
Charles Ghigra
"In every day there are a thousand miracles."
Unknown
"A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Everyone comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a judge."
Canon Linsay Dewar
"The Lord is my strength and my shield."
Psalm 28:7
"At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels."
John Donne
"Give ye praise all angels, to him above who is worthy of praise."
African Prayer
"Hope is the parent of Faith."
Cyrus A. Bartol
"While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love."
Phillips Brooks
"Look up and be guided by the Star of Joy."
Lavon Bayler
"What comes from the heart, goes to the heart."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God speaks as softly as he can and as loud as he has to."
Rafi Zabor
"True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven."
Frederick Buechner
"Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings."
George MacDonald
"Self preservation is the first law of nature; self sacrifice the highest rule of grace."
Anonymous
"The angels are the dispensers and the administrators of the divine beneficence toward us; they regard our safety and exercise our constant solicitude that no evil befalls us."
John Calvin