Heavenly Wisdom: A Captivating Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Angels

Discover the uplifting power of angels through this carefully curated collection of inspirational quotes. Angels have long been symbols of hope, protection, and divine guidance across cultures and beliefs. This blog post brings together profound reflections from historical figures, spiritual leaders, and artists who have expressed the comforting presence and transformative influence of angels in our lives. Whether you seek solace during challenging times or inspiration to embrace your inner light, these quotes offer a gentle reminder that angels are always near, guiding us with love and wisdom. From the guardian angels watching over us to the metaphorical angels within each of us, this collection celebrates the many ways angels touch our hearts and encourage us to rise above adversity. Join us on this spiritual journey and let these angelic words uplift your soul, inspire kindness, and deepen your connection to the unseen forces that nurture and protect us all.

Wisdom from the Masters

"Angels are the messengers of hope, delivering messages of encouragement and reminding us to never give up."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

Hope

"When we open our hearts, angels appear in the form of guiding voices, helping us find our way in the darkness of life."

- Paulo Coelho

Inspiration

"Angels are not mystical creatures from another realm; they are the manifestations of love and kindness in our lives."

- Deepak Chopra

Love

"Angels are the celestial messengers who guide us towards the right path, nudging us to make choices aligned with our highest good."

- Sonia Choquette

Wisdom

"Angels whisper messages of divine wisdom, inspiring us to tap into our inner strength and potential."

- Louise Hay

Inspiration

"Angels remind us that even in the midst of chaos, there is always a higher plan at work."

- Neale Donald Walsch

Faith

"Angels are the ethereal beings who send us signs and synchronicities, reminding us that we are on the right path."

- James Van Praagh

Awareness

"Angels remind us that we have the power to rise above our circumstances and create a better future."

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

"Angels remind us to be present in the moment, to fully embrace the beauty and joy that surrounds us."

- Eckhart Tolle

Mindfulness

"Angels make the invisible power of love visible, guiding us towards acts of kindness and compassion."

- Mason Cooley

Love

"Angels remind us that we are never alone, and that the love of the divine is always surrounding us."

- Wayne Dyer

Faith

"Angels serve as gentle reminders that forgiveness is the key to freeing our souls from the chains of resentment."

- Iyanla Vanzant

Forgiveness

"Angels are the companions who walk beside us, offering comfort and solace during our darkest hours."

- Mitch Albom

Compassion

"Angels remind us that even in the face of adversity, we have the power to choose love over fear."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Courage

"Angels exist to remind us of the beauty and divinity within ourselves, urging us to embrace our inner light."

- Doreen Virtue

Inspiration

"Angels are the celestial beings that guide us towards our destined paths, ensuring we stay aligned with our soul’s purpose."

- Caroline Myss

Spirituality

"Angels are the invisible hand that lifts us up when we are ready to give up on ourselves."

- Marianne Williamson

Hope

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

- Luciano De Crescenzo

Connection to Earth

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

- James Allen

Achievement

"Of course, we all need angels. I had to have one over my head throughout my life, even right now. The odds of my making it were slim to none. So you have to have an angel. You have to believe."

- Michael Oher

Faith

"You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give."

- Patti LaBelle

Generosity

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

- Michelangelo

Inspiration

"No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me."

- Paulo Coelho

Faith

"For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans."

- Brian Weiss

Spirituality

"Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

Philosophy

"You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here."

- Sarah McLachlan

Compassion

"If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep."

- George D. Prentice

Faith

"When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts."

- Mary Baker Eddy

Love

"When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels."

- Dorothy Maclean

Joy

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

Family

"The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God."

- Meister Eckhart

Spirituality

"Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all."

- Giovanni Giocondo

Hope

"Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times."

- Doreen Virtue

Compassion

"Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth."

- Frederick William Faber

Love

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

- Thomas Aquinas

Faith

"Music is the language spoken by angels."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Creativity

"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."

- Thomas Aquinas

Spirituality

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it."

- Francis Bacon

Morality

"Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life."

- Saint Basil

Faith

"For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels."

- Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy

"Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring."

- Billy Graham

Faith

"I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way."

- Della Reese

Gratitude

"But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers."

- Ambrose

Faith

"Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise."

- Martha Beck

Hope

"Let us be like the holy angels now. ... If one day we are to be in the angelic court, we must learn how, while we are still here, the manners of the angels."

- St. Vincent Ferrer

Faith

"We should show our affection for the angels, for one day they will be our coheirs just as here below they are our guardians and trustees appointed and set over us by the Father."

- St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Faith

"At the orders of the queen, the angels frequently assisted the apostles in their travels and tribulations ... The angels often visited them in visible shapes, conversing with them and consoling them in the name of the most blessed Mary."

- St. Mary of Agreda

Faith

"The angels who shine like the stars feel sympathy for our human nature and place it before God's eyes just as if it were a book. They attend us. They speak to us in a reasonable way, just as God inspires them to do. In the sight of God they praise people who do good deeds but turn away from those who are evil."

- St. Hildegard of Bingen

Faith

"I have great reverence for Saint Michael the Archangel; he had no example to follow in doing the will of God, and yet he fulfilled God's will faithfully."

- St. Faustina Kowalska

Faith

"The good angels hold cheap all that knowledge of material and transitory things which the demons are so proud of possessing -- not that they are ignorant of these things, but because of the love of God, whereby they are sanctified, is very dear to them, and because, in comparison of that not merely immaterial but also unchangeable and ineffable beauty, with the holy love of which they are inflamed, they despise all things which are beneath it, and all that is not it, that they may with every good thing that is in them enjoy that good which is the source of their goodness."

- St. Augustine

Faith

"Those closest to God in heaven, the seraphim, are called the fiery ones because more than the other angels they take their fervor and ardor from the intense fire of God."

- St. Robert Bellarmine

Faith

"All the works of the angels and the inspirations they impart are also accomplished or granted by God. For ordinarily these works and inspirations are derived from God by means of the angels, and the angels also in turn give them one to another without delay."

- St. John of the Cross

Faith

"Cherubim means knowledge in abundance. They provide an everlasting protection for that which appeases God, namely, the calm of your heart, and they will cast a shadow of protection against all the attacks of malign spirits."

- St. John Cassian

Faith

"If you are willing to listen to the Lord of the angels, my soul, you will have no reason to envy the angels their lofty place or how they move at tremendous speeds without tiring. For you will not only be equal to the angels when you are freed from the body, but also ... you will possess together with your body heaven as your own home."

- St. Robert Bellarmine

Faith

"Is there a greater happiness than to imitate on earth the choir of angels?"

- St. Basil the Great

Faith

"God loves in the seraphim as charity, knows in the cherubim as truth, is seated in the thrones as equity, reigns in the dominions as majesty, rules in the principalities as principle, guards in the powers as salvation, acts in the virtues as strength, reveals in the archangels as light, assists in the angels as piety."

- St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Faith

"The angels were created in the heavens and in the state of grace by which they might be first to merit the reward of glory. For although they were in the midst of glory, the divinity itself was not to be made manifest to them face to face and unveiled, until they should be merited such a favor by obeying the divine will."

- St. Mary of Agreda

Faith

"Although the angels are superior to us in many ways, yet in some respects ... they fall short of us with regard to being in the image of the Creator; for we, rather than they, have been created in God's image."

- St. Gregory Palamas

Faith

"Poverty is that heavenly virtue by which all earthy and transitory things are trodden under foot, and by which every obstacle is removed from the soul so that it may freely enter into union with the eternal Lord God. It is also the virtue which makes the soul, while still here on earth, converse with the angels in heaven."

- St. Francis of Assisi

Faith

"The powers of hell will assail the dying Christian; but his angel guardian will come to console him. His patrons, and St. Michael, who has been appointed by God to defend his faithful servants in their last combat with the devils, will come to his aid."

- St. Alphonsus Liguori

Faith

"If we detect an angel by the effect he is producing, let us hasten to pray since our heavenly guardian has come to join us."

- St. John Climacus

Faith

"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

- Saint Francis de Sales

Spirituality

"When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine."

- Rumi

Spirituality

"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."

- Billy Graham

Faith

"God is the brightest of lights which can never be extinguished, and the choirs of angels radiate light from the divinity. Angels are pure praise without any trace of a bodily deed."

- St. Hildegard of Bingen

Spirituality

"God is humanity's universal teacher and guardian, but his teaching to humanity is mediated by angels."

- St. Thomas Aquinas

Faith

"Since God often sends us his inspirations by means of his angels, we ought frequently to offer him our aspirations through the same channel. ... Call on them and honor them frequently, and ask their help in all your affairs, temporal as well as spiritual."

- St. Francis de Sales

Faith

"The angels of God accompanied the faithful when the light of his truth only dawned in the new world. And now that the day sprung from on high was visited, and exalted our nature to a union with the divinity, will these beneficent beings be less associated or delighted to dwell with the soul that is panting for heavenly joys and longing to join in their eternal alleluias? Oh, no, I will imagine them always surrounding me and in every moment will sing with them, ' Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of your glory!'"

- St. Elizabeth Seton

Faith

"If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love."

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

Love

"Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection."

- Ezra Furman

Faith

"When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel."

- Micky Dolenz

Faith

"When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel."

- Denzel Washington

Awareness

"The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right."

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Connection to Earth

"My angels watch over me every day. Make sure I'm on the right path. I might be a angel."

- NLE Choppa

Faith

"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."

- Rita Dove

Inspiration

"Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other."

- Jacqueline Novogratz

Self-improvement

"I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life."

- Barbara Hale

Faith

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love

"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart."

- Horace Mann

Compassion

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."

- Anton Chekhov

Peace

"I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being."

- Annie Lennox

Self-awareness

"I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing."

- Jimmy Page

Hope

"Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus."

- Ellen G. White

Spirituality

"I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal."

- Kevin Hart

Healing

"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."

- Saint Augustine

Faith

"Pride and nothing else caused an angel to fall from heaven. And so one my reasonably ask whether one may reach heaven by humility alone without the help of any other virtue."

- St. John Climacus

Faith

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

- Thomas Carlyle

Spirituality

"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

Reflection

"I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, 'Eh, I think she can handle more.' And the angels thinking, 'What are you doing? You're a lunatic.' And God being like, 'No, no, trust me. She can handle this.'"

- Tig Notaro

Faith

"It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out."

- Tionne Watkins

Hope

"If you remembered the presence of your angel and the angels of your neighbors, you would avoid many of the foolish things which slip into your conversations."

- St. Josemaria Escriva

Self-awareness

"I know I got angels watchin me from the other side."

- Kanye West

Faith

"We are not angels but we have bodies, and it is madness for us to want to become angels while we are still on earth."

- St. Teresa of Avila

Faith

"The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above."

- Fanny Crosby

Love

"You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels."

- Clarence Thomas

Belief

"I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either."

- R. Kelly

Self-awareness

"An angel of God never has wings."

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

Belief

"Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them."

- Gisele Bundchen

Love

"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Relationships

"I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child."

- Bessie Smith

Self-esteem

"Don't put wings on me; I am no angel."

- Diego Costa

Self-awareness

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."

- Marilyn Monroe

Love

"I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel."

- Sean Combs

Self-confidence

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

- Buddha

Courage

"The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature."

- Abraham Lincoln

Inspiration

"Peace is the first thing the angels sang."

- John Keble

Peace

"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."

- Edvard Munch

Adversity

"They talk like angels but they live like men."

- St. Jerome

Awareness

"Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance."

- Nostradamus

Philosophy

"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel."

- Voltaire

Philosophy

"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels."

- Agnes Macphail

Belief in Self

"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."

- George Bernard Shaw

Philosophy

"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart."

- Karl Barth

Faith

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Philosophy

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."

- Francis Bacon

Philosophy

"Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust."

- Kenneth Rexroth

Philosophy