"The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man"
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"They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels."
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"The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity."
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"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore - For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore."
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"As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger."
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"L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast."
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"The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept."
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"The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass."
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"If angels come not to minister us it is because we do not invite them, it is because we keep the door closed through which they might otherwise enter."
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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread."
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"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."
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"An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines."
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"You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?"
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"Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look."
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"Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so."
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"At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels."
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"The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us."
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"No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me."
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"I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either."
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"With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death."
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