#angels

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #becoming #beginning #believed #cast

We are never like angels till our passion dies. ↗

— John Denham

#dies #like #never #our #passion

They talk like angels but they live like men. ↗

— St. Jerome

#like #live #men #talk

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#came #fell #i #love #them

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#because #declared #divide #divine #heaven

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#babe #between #earth #house #innocence

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#god #know #life #man #men

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#called #collectively #constitute #divine #flows

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two. ↗

— Clare Morgan

#cemetery #change #resurrection #change

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#angels #better #down #friend #good