#angels

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#angels #cannot #confucius #earth #heaven

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#bright #complete #counterparts #dark #distance

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#angels #believe #far #flap #give

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#believe #god #i #i believe #i believe in

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . . ↗

— Graham Greene

#beauty #male-beauty #sin #beauty

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side. ↗

— Kanye West

#got #i #know #me #other

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

#angels #christ #desire #fall #first

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras. ↗

— Sean Young

#city #devils #smiling

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#devils #made #nor #out #us

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#apparently #day #devoid #earth #naturally