The Angels were all singing out of tune,

and hoarse with having little else to do,

excepting to wind up the sun and moon

or curb a runaway young star or two.

Lord Byron

The reason Angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.  G.K. Chesterton

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.

Adeline Cullen Ray

You’ll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one.

Daisey Verlaef

A pillow for thee will I bring, stuffed with down of angel’s wing.

Richard Crashaw

Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy.  Adeline Cullen Ray

It is not known precisely where angels dwell—whether in the air, the void or the planets.

It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.  Voltaire

Oh welcome,

pure-eyed Faith,

white-handed Hope,

thou hovering angel,

girt with golden wings!

John Milton

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.  Michelangelo

Chasing Angels    

The sky is the temple of God.

The clouds are the homes of angels.

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The angels keep their ancient places

Turn but a stone and start a wing!

“Tis ye, ‘tis ye, your estranged faces

That miss the many-splendoured thing.

Francis Thompson

The Kingdom of God

Oh sovereign angel,

Wide winged stranger above a forgetful earth,

Care for me, care for me.  Keep me unaware of

Danger

And not regretful

And not regretful of my innocent birth.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

St. Augustine, Eight Questions

Out of that stream there issued living sparks, which settled on the flowers on all sides, like rubies set in gold; and then, as if intoxicated with the odors, they again played into the amazing flood; as one spark sank, another spark emerged.

Dante, Paradiso

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

Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcano Coelestia

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty:

And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.

What further may be sought for or declared?

Robert Browning, The Guardian-Angel

 

“There shall be wings!

If the accomplishment be not for me,

‘tis for some other.”

Leonardo da Vinci