It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
William Blake
Related It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. SAINT AUGUSTINE Blake was mad, they say, -- and Space's Pandora-boxLoosed its wonders upon him -- devils, but angels... WILLIAM ROSE BENET Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. G. K. CHESTERTON Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. CRISS JAMI But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.�... JOHN OWEN There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to trea... G.K. CHESTERTON God created many races wilier than men. But it doesn't mean angels higher than us. TOBA BETA Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men... ELLEN G. WHITE It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. JOHN STEINBECK Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity. JEFFREY FRY The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by ... C.S. LEWIS By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of ... JOHN FLAVEL You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of th... CONN IGGULDEN Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. ... JOHN DONNE They talk like angels but they live like men. ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men. SAINT JEROME You are a miracle..they say angels are only in heaven but wow i knw one OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Not all angels come from above. Some are beside you or around you even as we speak. Then why can't w... ADHISH MAZUMDER Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a ... RALPH CUDWORTH Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, si... PAULO COELHO It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ANATOLE FRANCE All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it com... VOLTAIRE So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted... JULIAN THE APOSTATE So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted... JULIAN THE APOSTATE Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One... ANDREW MURRAY There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was bec... FRANZ KAFKA The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort the... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. AYAAN HIRSI ALI In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of d... GEORGE ELIOT His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo o... ANAïS NIN I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, ... KARL BARTH Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance! DEYTH BANGER I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but ... GENE WILDER Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desir... JERRY BRIDGES Life's irony;Some couples cheat on one another,not because they are promiscous, but because their na... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. Tha... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but wha... CYRIL CONNOLLY Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murde... JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG-ACTON We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond. ARABIC PROVERB The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils an... WILLIAM BLAKE The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils ... WILLIAM BLAKE There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others t... EMANUEL SWEDENBORG We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. LUCRETIUS We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. G. K. CHESTERTON Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. G.K CHESTERTON If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels f... DEJAN STOJANOVIC If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform. MARY WILSON LITTLE Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the pub... LINUS TORVALDS It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It canno... BUDDHA It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It canno... BUDDHA BUDDHA He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from ... KAHLIL GIBRAN O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the ange... JOSEPH ALLEINE There are people who believe in the existence of angels, but do not believe in alien existence. Ther... TOBA BETA "Angels appear when we least expect them,
yet we only knew them as great friends."
~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, i... WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies. BILLY GRAHAM Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en fam... KARL BARTH Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for ... ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be ... ALEXANDER POPE God is the Lord, of angels, and of men - and of elves J.R.R. TOLKIEN Our first job is to correct this because this is not Islam. We are going to show that women are not ... JAMILA SHANTI Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God an... ANONYMOUS I am not hlier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest d... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. G.K. CHESTERTON We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Lucian... LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO Wretched men, I was moved to cry, who, because they will not learn to be helpers of one another, are... EDWARD BELLAMY Angels are not supernatural beings who come from heaven knows where. Angels are human beings who con... CHARBEL TADROS Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware... GEORGE SANTAYANA Angels are not beings with wings; they are feelings that give us wings. INA CATRINESCU 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ALEXANDER POPE It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ... FINLEY PETER DUNNE I believe there is no heaven or hell. There are no devils or angels. No afterlife or salvation. My s... BHAVYA KAUSHIK But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it... ELLIS PETERS When the young are called from this earth, they are to become god’s angels. KISHAN S CHAUHAN But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. T... JOHNATHAN SAFRAN FOER It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth ... GEORGE WHITEFIELD If a woman truly loves you, you can’t always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more... NICHOLAS SPARKS The angels you meet in life may be little devils in disguise. MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON Butterflies are like angels kisses sent from heaven. MALIA KIRK They do not love one another because they do not love themselves. KURT VONNEGUT Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,... SAINT IGNATIUS I think men are drawn to Pilates because they have this vague notion it will help them with back iss... LYNETTE MATSUSHIMA We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosio... GERMAINE GREER We are not angels, but we may at time be better versions of ourselves ERWIN HARGROVE Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do n... ISABEL ALLENDE Real happiness or joy is not the one derived from material substance,nor the one derived from marria... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I... CLAUDIA SCHIFFER Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because ... WILLIAM HAZLITT Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because ... WILLIAM HAZLITT Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immedia... JONATHAN CARROLL
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Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little ... WILLIAM BLAKE O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
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"Get thee away! get thee away!
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And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'... WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower:
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Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
... WILLIAM BLAKE The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. WILLIAM BLAKE O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,
Dee... WILLIAM BLAKE His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ... WILLIAM BLAKE Active Evil is better than Passive Good. WILLIAM BLAKE Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po... WILLIAM BLAKE And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ... WILLIAM BLAKE Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity. WILLIAM BLAKE The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots. WILLIAM BLAKE There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t... WILLIAM BLAKE When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. WILLIAM BLAKE Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise. WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!' WILLIAM BLAKE I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew. WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is... WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc... WILLIAM BLAKE Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out. WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th... WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out. WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta... WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth. WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water. WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram... WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar... WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity. WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night... WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind... WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too? WILLIAM BLAKE