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All giving and receiving is reciprocal; you entertain angels unawares, but they cannot impart more or higher things than you are in a state to receive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Master Sergeant Johnson in the bush of ‘Nam circa 1968

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”

The Angels were all singing out of tune,

And hoarse with having little else to do,

Excepting to wind up the sun and moon

Or curb a runaway young star or two.

~Lord Byron

I wear a coat of angels’ breath and warm myself with His love. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

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 alone. ~William Blake

Angels have no philosophy but love. ~Adeline Cullen Ray

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. ~Voltaire

Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~Meister Eckhart

Angels descending, bring from above,

Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

~Fanny J. Crosby

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo

Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

We trust in plumed procession

For such the angels go –

Rank after Rank, with even feet –

And uniforms of Snow.

~Emily Dickinson

Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings. ~John Keats

All God’s angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell

God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth

Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

~John Milton, Paradise Lost

Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter

Thorns and stings

And those such things

Just make stronger

Our angel wings.

~Emme Woodhull-Bäche

Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Angels are spiritual energy. ~Alexis F. Hope

I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean Cocteau

Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~Astrid Alauda

We’re all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Amethyst Snow-Rivers

Somewhere in the bible