#angels

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

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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

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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings. ↗

— Walter Lang

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I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

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I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men. ↗

— Origen

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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels. ↗

— Origen

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