Definition of angels

"angels" in the noun sense

1. angel

spiritual being attendant upon God

2. saint, holy man, holy person, angel

person of exceptional holiness

3. angel, backer

invests in a theatrical production

4. Angel, Angel Falls

the highest waterfall has more than one leap flow varies seasonally

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Quotations for angels

By that sin angels fell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tears such as angels weep. [ Milton ]

The language spoken by angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The hours are viewless angels,
That still go gliding by,
And bear each moment's record up
To Him that sits on high. [ C. P. Cranch ]

In the infinite meadows of Heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars,
The forget-me-nots of the angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

White winged angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life. [ Mrs. E. Oakes Smith ]

O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died! [ Longfellow ]

Thankfulness is the tune of angels. [ Spenser ]

Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]

Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]

But we all are men.
In our own natures frail; and capable
Of our flesh, few are angels. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

Like angel visits, few and far between. [ Campbell ]

Like angels' visits, short and bright;
Mortality's too weak to bear them long. [ J. Norris ]

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till bewildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies.
The angels with us unawares. [ Gerald Massey ]

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. [ John Fletcher ]

And her immortal part with angels lives. [ William Shakespeare ]

Angels and ministers of grace defend us! [ William Shakespeare ]

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. [ Pope ]

She thought our good-night kiss was given.
And like a lily her life did close;
Angels uncurtain'd that repose,
And the next waking dawn'd in heaven. [ Gerald Massey ]

Love can make us fiends as well as angels. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Men would be angels; angels would be gods. [ Pope ]

Angels contented with their face in heaven.
Seek not the praise of men. [ Milton ]

How sweetly did they float upon the wings
Of silence through the empty-vaulted night.
At every fall smoothing the raven down
Of darkness till it smiled! [ Milton ]

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! [ William Shakespeare ]

Who does the best his circumstance allows.
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. [ Edward Young ]

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. [ Milton ]

Yes - the same sin that overthrew the angels,
And of all sins most easily besets
Mortals the nearest to the angelic nature:
The vile are only vain; the great are proud. [ Byron ]

But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And all his prospects bright'ning to the last,
His heaven commences, ere the world be past! [ Goldsmith ]

The tears of penitents are the wine of angels. [ St. Bernard ]

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. [ Carlyle ]

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Woman is a creature between man and the angels. [ Balzac ]

We are never like angels till our passion dies. [ Thomas Dekker ]

A guardian angel over his life presiding.
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. [ Samuel Rogers ]

God gives his angels charge of those who sleep,
But He Himself watches with those who wake. [ Harriet E. H. King ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angels' music, therefore come not late. [ George Herbert ]

And then her look - Oh, where's the heart so wise
Could, unbewilder'd, meet those matchless eyes?
Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal.
Like those of angels. [ Moore ]

The helmed Cherubim,
And sworded Seraphim,
Are seen in glittering ranks with wings displayed. [ Milton ]

Human hearts should be temples where angels dwell. [ T. L. Harris ]

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men say, By pride the angels fell from heaven.
By pride they reached a place from which they fell. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this -
Men prize the thing ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]

Absolute fiends are as rare as angels, perhaps rarer. [ J. S. Mill ]

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep.
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams.
And into glory peep. [ Vaughan ]

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved. [ Joubert ]

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. [ Bacon ]

The Wise (Minstrel or Sage), out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their graves they rise.
Angels - that, side by side, upon our way,
Walk with and warn us! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King:
Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. [ Charles Wesley ]

The air of paradise did fan the house, and angels officed all. [ William Shakespeare ]

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

As pure in thought as angels are, to know her was to love her. [ Rogers ]

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. [ William Shakespeare ]

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels. [ Boufflers ]

Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. [ Jesus of children ]

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. [ Virgil ]

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. [ Emerson ]

In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to look on. [ Pythagoras ]

A lamp is lit in woman's eye, that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. [ N. P. Willis ]

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. [ Balzac ]

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. [ Pythagoras ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave - legions of angels can't confine me there! [ Young ]

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. [ Thomas Paine ]

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake. [ Milton ]

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. [ Emerson ]

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. [ Emerson ]

If angels ever condescend to walk on this earth of ours, it is when clad in the form of good mothers. [ W. T. Burke ]

We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him, saying, A man is born. [ Beecher ]

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep. [ G. D. Prentice ]

What is ambition? It is a glorious cheat! Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven. [ Willis ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we would please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. [ Colton ]

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. [ Chapin ]

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]

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 ]

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting-place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. [ Tupper ]

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. [ George Eliot ]

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. [ Hermes ]

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels must give. [ George Macdonald ]

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage. [ Phoebe Gary ]

Is it not strange, the way in which good angels seem to take up the thread of our dropped hopes and endeavors, and wind them up for us, we know not how, till it is all done? [ Miss Muloch ]

Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed. [ Jean Paul ]

At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely. [ Luther ]

She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]

We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

When at last the angels come to convey your departing spirit to Abraham's bosom, depend upon it, however dazzling in their newness they may be to you. you will find that your history is no novelty, and you yourself no stranger to them. [ James Hamilton ]

We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is before the eyes of men, on the brink of dissolution, a glassy film, which death appears to impart, that they may have a brief prospect of eternity when some behold the angels of light, while others have the demons of darkness before them. [ Cockton ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. [ Alcott ]

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. [ Colton ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne, and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]

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Words containing the sequence angels

Words that start with angels (3 words)

Words with angels in them (1 word)

Words that end with angels (2 words)

Word Growth involving angels

Shorter words in angels

an angel

el gel angel

el els gels

el gel gels

Longer words containing angels

angelshark angelsharks

archangels