"But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers."
   --Ambrose

"We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to some one's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith. We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance."
   --Joan Wester Anderson

"Angels are speaking to all of us... some of us are only listening better."
   - Anonymous

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
    --Aristotle

"Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For 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."
   --Augustine

"For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'..."
   --Augustine

"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."
   --Thomas Aquinas ("Summa Theologica")

"A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends."
   --Thomas Aquinas

“The Divine Reality may be likened to the sun and the Holy Spirit to the rays of the sun. As the rays of the sun bring the light and warmth of the sun to the earth, giving life to all created beings, so the ‘Manifestations’ bring power of the Holy Spirit from the Divine Sun of Realty to give Light and Life the souls of me.”
    --Bah’a’u’llah, founder/exponent of the Bahai Faith

“Trembling I sit day and night, my friends are astonish’d at me,
Yet they forgive my wanderings, I rest not from my great task!
To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes of Man
Inwards into the Worlds of Thought, into Eternity
“Ever expanding in the Bosom of God…”
    --William Blake, selection from ‘Jerusalem’

"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")

“Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.”
    --Erma Bombeck

“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")

"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")

“Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.”
    --Robert Browning

“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
    --Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
  --Buddha (536 B.C.-483 B.C.)

"No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release."
   --Gautama Buddha

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    --Albert Camus (1913-1960)

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
    --Dale Carnegie, American philanthropist and industrialist

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
    --Anton Chekov

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
      --Sir Winston Churchill, (1874 - 1965) British Statesman
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
      --Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister

“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
   --Confucius

"If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil."
   --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“You are the people who are shaping a better world.  One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.”
  --Dalai Lama (1935 -)

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
   --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

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

“Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.”
     --St. Francis De Sales
"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

“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. . . . Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.”
    --St Francis de Sales

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.”
    --Charles Dickens

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
    --Emily Dickinson
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
    --Emily Dickinson

“There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
    --Albert Einstein

“Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action this, though not easy, is the work of divine man.”
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
   --John Fletcher ("Upon An Honest Man's Fortune")

“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
    --Benjamin Franklin

“Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel.”

    --Eileen Elias Freeman

"The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it."
    --Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

“Each child at his birth, is given a Bowl of Perfect Light.  If he tends his Light it will grow in strength and he can do all things—swim with the shark, fly with the birds, know and understand all things. If, however, he becomes envious or jealous he drops a stone into his Bowl of Light and some of the Light goes out.  Light and the stone cannot hold the same space.  If he continues to put stones in the Bowl of Light, the Light will go out and he will become a stone.  A stone does not grow nor does it move.  If at any time he tires of being a stone, all he needs to do is turn the bowl upside down and the stones will fall away and the Light will grow once more.”
    --Hawaiian proverb

“It is impossible to see the Angel unless you first have a notion of it.” -- James Hillman

“He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
      --Elbert Hubbard

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
     --Carl Jung

“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

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.”
    --Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
   --Helen Keller (1880-1968)

“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”
    --Soren Kierkegaard

“I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other.”
    --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

 “People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
   --Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 -)

"Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; 
kindness in giving creates love." --Lao Tzu

“Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place.” 
   --Carrie Latet

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”
   --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
    --Mahatma Gandhi

“And the finest fiber of physiology is expressed in the Vedic Literature as Devata. Devata, silence embodiment.  Embodiment of silence, Shiva.  Embodiment of dynamism, Vishnu.  All these Devatas are there present in the structure of the physiology.  So it's not an imagination.  It's a reality. Physiology,  physiology of man, physiology of Devata, physiology of the embodiment of silence - Shiva, physiology of the embodiment of dynamism - Vishnu.  They are the physical expressions. And these physical expressions have a form. They have a form. They have all that is described in the Vedic Literature as the Devatas.”
    --Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Man is the master of his own destiny.  He has free will, the greatest of God's gifts to him, whereby he has complete freedom of action.  But, having performed the action, he has to bear its consequences, for reaction is always equal to action.”
    --Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.”
    --Joseph de Maistre

“Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come...."
   --Michelangelo (1475-1564)

“Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.”
    --John Milton 

"Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us."
   - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”
    --Edward R. Murrow

"Human things must be known to be loved, but divine things must be loved to be known."   --Blaise Pascal 

“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.”
    --Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

"I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world."
   --Petrarch

"Everything you can imagine is real." --Pablo Picasso 

“The master’s eye is the best fertilizer.”  --Pliny the Elder

"An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me."
   --Pope John XXIII

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
    --Rainer Maria Rilke

“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek” –Tom Robbins

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
    --Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place
by the fireside and simply look on.  Life was meant to be lived.
Curiosity must be kept alive.  One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life." 
  --Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”
    --Jonas Salk (1914-1995)

“Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.”   --Saint Theresa of Lisieux

“What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
  --Chief Seattle (1786-1866)

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one sees rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
    --Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

“The unexamined life was not worth living.”
    --Socrates

“Don't shoot the messenger.”
    --Sophocles

“Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation.  Nothing else is worth praying for.” 
    --Samuel M. Shoemaker

“God be prais'd, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
    --William Shakespeare

“In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.”
    --George Bernard Shaw

"It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel."
   --Emanuel Swedenborg

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.”
    --Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
    --Leo Tolstoy 

"Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in their 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 converse 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

“The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.”-- Peter Wilson

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”--Ludwig Wittgenstein

“God’s vastness I glimpsed in the skies of quietness. His joy I tasted in the fountains of my own existence. His voice I heard in my unsleeping conscience.”
    --Yogananda Paramahansa

“O Father, teach me to feel that Thou are the power behind all wealth, and the value within all things. Finding Thee first, I will find everything in Thee.”
    --Yogananda Paramahansa

“I will speak the truth, but I will at all times avoid speaking unpleasant or harmful truths. I will offer no criticism that is not motivated by kindness.”
    --Yogananda Paramahansa

“Teach me, O Spirit, to cooperate with Thy will until all my thoughts shall conform to Thy harmonious plans.”
    --Yogananda Paramahansa

“I will behold wisdom in ignorance, joy in sorrow, health in weakness; for I know that God’s perfection is the only reality.”
    --Yogananda Paramahansa