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Angels Among Us

Angels are always with us - they guard and protect us,

comfort and guide us.

They're our constant companions from conception till death.

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber!
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.

   Isaac Watts.

"Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel."

St. Augustine

"Since God often sends us inspirations by means of his angels,
we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers."

St. Francis De Sales

"If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good angel
and charge him to pray in your stead."

St. John Vianney

"When tempted, invoke your angel. He is more eager to help you than you are to be helped! Ignore the devil and do not be afraid of him; he trembles and flees at your guardian angel’s sight."

St. John Bosco

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

"For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone."

Luke 4:10-11

"Am angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strenghthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates."

St. Thomas Aquinas

"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."

Hebrews 13:2

"Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit: for, without being seen, they are present with you. "

St. Francis de Sales

"Like living flame their faces seemed to glow, Their wings were gold. And all their bodies shone more dazzling white than any earthly show."

Dante

"He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."

Saint Paul

"There is joy in the presence of the angels."

Luke 15:10

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

St. Augustine

"Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared."

Exodus 23:20

"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

"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

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

Thomas Paine

"God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty."

T. L. Cuyler

"It must be affirmed that angels and everything existing, except God, were made by God."

Thomas Aquinas

"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

"I saw the tracks of angels in the earth, The beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world."

Petrarch

"Every man contemplates an angel in his future self."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly."

St. Teresa of Avila

"This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple and wise; this is the angelic life."

St John Chrysostom

"There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself."

St. Thomas Aquinas

"If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger."

St. Augustine

"Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar."

John of Damascus

"And the angel said- "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love."

Tolstoy

"Likewise I say unto you there is joy in the presence of angels."

Luke 15:10

"A good angel will go with him: he will have a good journey and come back to us well and happy."

Tobit 5:22

"A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends."

St. Thomas Aquinas

"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."

Psalms 91:11

"Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word."

Psalms 103:20

"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works."

Matthew 16:27

"And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him."

Luke 22:43

"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven."

Matthew 18:10

"Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact angels have no religion as we know it----their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on earth."

St. Thomas Aquinas