quotes about angels in heaven and on earth

How angels gazed and wondered at the sight!

Had angels cause to wonder? Man has more;

You, dearest Lord, I wonder, love, adore!

                                                       -Anne Steele

Blest tears of soul-felt penitence;

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But well the enraptured Peri knew

'Twas a bright smile the angel threw

From heaven's gate, to hail that tear

Her harbinger of glory near!

                         -Thomas Moore.

Visions come and go,

Shapes of resplenent beauty round us throng;

From angel lips I seem to hear the flow

Of soft and holy song.

                                            -Miss E. Loyd.

No sun or star so bright

In all the world of light,

That they should draw toheaven his downward eye;

He hears the Almighty's word,

He sees the Angel's sword,

Yet low upon the earth his heart and treasure lie.

                                                                 -John Keble.

Angels our servants are,

And keep in all our ways,

And in their hands they bear

The sacred sons of grace;

Our guardians to that heavenly bliss,

They all our steps attend.

                                -Wesley.

Are ye forever to your skies departed?

Will ye visit earth no more?

Ye, whose wings in splendor  darted

Eden's groves in days of yore?

No! ye have not man forsaken,

Though from God he's gone astray!

Ye have heaven's message taken,

Which imparts eternal day.

                          -Roswell Rice.

Yet on man they joy to wait,

All that bright celestial state.

                                    -Anonymous.

Mortals! if angels grief might know,

From angels if a tear might flow,

For you celestial woes might rise,

And pity dim a seraph's eyes.

                                   -Mrs. Hemans

Thousands on thousands ministered to Him, and ten hundred

times a hundred thousand assisted before His throne.

                                                              -Daniel, 7:10. The Bible.

Thy finer sense perceives

Celestial and perpetual harmonies!

Thy purer soul, that trembles and believes,

Hears the archangel's trumpet in the breeze,

And where the forest rolls, or ocean heaves,

Cecilia's organ sounding in the seas,

And tongues of prophets speaking in the leaves.

                                                         -Longfellow.

Whether is there a limit to the number of his soldiers.

                                                  -Job, 25:3. The Bible.

Did viewless seraphs nestle all around,

Making sweet music out of air so sweet?

                                       -Hartly Coleridge.

When Joshua led the tribes o'er Jordan's flood,

The captains of God's host before him stood;

He fell, and own'd, adoring on his face,

A power whose presence sanctified the place.

                                           -Montgomery.

Nor shall we see heroic men alone,

Champions who fought the fight of faith on earth;

But heavenly conquerors, angelic hosts,

Michael and the bright legions, who subdued

The foes of Truth! To join their blest employ

Of love and praise! To the high melodies

Of choirs celestial to attune my voice,

Accordant to the golden harps of saints!

To join in blest hosannas to their King!

                                                           -Hannah More.

Age by age

Earth yielded hither her choicest and her best,

And here the angels on their ministries

Passed ever to and fro.

                                         -Bickersteth.

And now to me the smallest bird that flies

Twitters a song which seraphim might sing;

While roadside flowers a sacred message bring,

And treach those truths that make the angels wise.

                                     -E Thorneycroft Fowler.

When we wake, or when we sleep,

Angel guards their vigils keep;

Death and danger may be near,

Faith and love have naught to fear.

                      -Harriet Auber.

Yet, by your shining eyes not all forsaken,

Man wandered from his Paradise away;

Ye, from forgetfulness his heart to waken,

Came down, high guests, in many a later day,

And with the Patriarchs, under vine or oak,

Midst noontide calm or hush of evening spoke.

                                      -Mrs. Hemans.

Wherefore, ere virtue o'er the tomb hath wept,

Angels shall lead thee to the throne above.

                                                               -Coleridge.

One noon I met an angel by the way,

And giving the hand of welcome, bade him stay

Beneath my roof and rest.

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   "Angel, by my guest,

Sit thou in quietude and take thy rest.

My nameis--" "Nay," the gracious angel said,

"Thy name is known in heaven;" and then he fled

Swift as the light across the ample sea,

But left an angel at my heart with me.

                           -Rev. William A. Quale.

And Angelico

The artist-saint kept smiling in his cell

The smile with which he welcomed the sweet, slow

Inbreak of angels (whitening through the dim

That he might paint them).

                       -Elizabeth Barret Browning

Dear angel, ever at my side,

How loving must thou be,

To leave thy home in heaven to guide

An arring child like me!

                          -St. Bernard.

Because I feel that in the heavens above,

The angels, whispering to one another,

Can find, among their burning terms of love,

None so devotional as that of "Mother,"

Therefore by that dear name I long have called you.

                                                           -Edgar Allan Poe.

Since I am coming to that holy room

Where, with Thy choir of angels, for evermore

I shall be made Thy music, as I come

I time my instrument here at the door,

And what I must do Thee, think here before.

                                                 -Rev. Dr. Donne.

The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man

cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will

soon hover nearer to us.

                                                                                 -Richter

The idea of guardian angels is taken form the fact that they guarded and

defended our Savior; hence, too, they are employed to defend the members

of His mystical body. These are as dear to Christ as the apple of His own

eye, and the motive that lie presents for not harming even the least one of

these, is because their angels continually behold the face of their Father in

heaven.

                                                                                  --Rev. Moses Kieffer, D. D.

You will always find that, in proportion to the earnestness of our own faith,

its tendency to accept a spiritual personality increases; and that the most

vital and beautiful Christian temper rests joyfully in its conviction of the

multitudinous ministry of living angels, infinitely varied in rank and power.

                                                                                 --John Ruskin.