Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, . . . especially the children of men.
— Richard Hooker

Think, In mounting higher,
The angels would press on us, and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet XXII)

When someone dies, an angel is there to meet them at the gates of Heaven to let them know that their life has just begun.
— Anonymous

It must be affirmed that angels and everything existing, except God, were made by God.
— Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.
— Joan Wester Anderson - (Regarding the existence of Angels), Paraphrased and contributed by Marty Greer

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth."
— William Blake (The Angel That Presided)

Spring bursts today,
For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.
…Sing, creatures, sing,
Angels and men and birds, and everything …
— Christina G. Rossetti

Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in their own life. The angel who was their guardian from their earliest moment, the angel who watched their steps and covered their head in the day of peril, the angel who was with them in the valley of the shadow of death, who marked their resting place, who was the first to greet them in the resurrection morning -- what will it be to hold conversation with them, and to learn the history of divine interposition in the individual life, of heavenly cooperation in every work for humanity!
— E. G. White

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other.
— Luciano de Crescenzo

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
— T. L. Cuyler

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry to evil, it is pure human love.
— N.P.Willis

Reputation is what men and women think of us,
Character is what God and the angels know of us.
— Thomas Paine

I want to be an angel,
And with the angels stand
A crown upon my forehead
A harp within my hand.
— Urania Locke Bailey

An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.
— John of Damascus

Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.
— John of Damascus

A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.
— St. Thomas Aquinas

I am the Angel of the Sun
Whose flaming wheels began to run
When God 's almighty breath
Said to the darkness and the Night,
Let there be light! and there was light.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
The bed be blest that I lie on.
Four angels to my bed.
Four angels round my head,
One to watch, and one to pray,
And two to bear my soul away.
— Thomas Ady (A Candle in the Dark)