"I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy"
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"Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth."
"Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!"
"The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue."
"For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'."
"If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well."
"God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers."
"It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown."
"I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel."
"Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."
"If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too."
"If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast."
"If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love."
"Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us."
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night."
"Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?"
"Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us."
"I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence."
"We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death."