“The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life.”
Henry Mills Alden (1836–1919) American magazine editor
A Study of Death (1895), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
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“Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!”
Herman Melville book Billy Budd, Sailor
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 19
“We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Also quoted in Diary of an Unknown (1991) as translated by Jesse Browne.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
“maybe you were visited by… an angel,” Carl said. ““An angel dressed as a biker?”
Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar
Tommy asked.
Source: Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson), p. 62
“I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.”
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) French painter
Courbet, c 1860's, later quoted by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to brother Theo (July, 1885); in The letters of Vincent van Gogh, ed. Ronal de Leeuw - Penguin, New York, 1996, p. 302
1860s
“Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.”
Emanuel Swedenborg book Arcana Cœlestia
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Arcana Coelestia (1749 - 1756)