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"At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!"
"Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip."
"To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation."
"Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse."
"Pride ruined the angels."
"He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God."
"Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say"
"Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must."
"We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure."
"We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in."
"An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel."
"The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!"
"Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied."
"Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters."
"And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically. "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale."
"He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people."
"Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again."
"When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way."
"The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners."
"Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God."
