984 Quotes About Angels

Power through. If you lose your way, follow the footsteps in the sand. If you stumble, angels are ready to hold your hand. If you fall, God will carry you to your destination.

It is at the name of Jesus, the Christ made man, that every knee is to bend in heaven. The overwhelming revelation made to the angels in the mystery of the Ascension is not that they are to adore the Eternal Word --- that is already the object of their liturgy; but rather, they are to adore the Word Incarnate --- and that overturns all of heaven, just as the Incarnation revolutionized all the earth.

The angels rejoice over one sinner who repents than ten thousand who are righteous.

The angels rejoices over a sinner who repents than ninety-nine who are righteous, who do not need any repentance.

May the angels be your sacred companion.

The word "angel" comes from Latin and means "messenger", which is what we become when the Angelic Forces within us empower the Angelic Forces in others.

Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas morning. When the angel met the shepherds in Bethlehem, the shepherds "were sore afraid." When I was a child, that phrase had always seemed odd to me...but now that I have thought more deeply about these words of scripture, it seems to me that the angels must have been more like our Christmas weasel: glorious in purity, strength, and holy perfection.

...the Middle Ages was the period during which most of the art depicting angels--still used today as models--originated. The New Catholic Encyclopedia says that actually the figural type of the Christian angel was derived from the winged Greek goddess of victory, Nike.

There's not a lot in this world as motivational as a firm belief in an unbending universal morality which just happens to place you on the side of the angels.