Thomas Traherne Quotes

Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".

Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

That's all an angel is....an idea of God.

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

I'm an angel in an earth suit.

An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.

Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.