Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

    “In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “Wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jude, verse 13.

    Recalling the Book of Enoch, in which fallen angels were condemned to be stars.

    “We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)