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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Angel Quotes


Quotes on Angels by the Saints

Make yourself familiar with the Angels, and behold them frequently in spirit. Without being seen, they are present with you. -St. Francis de Sales

Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.  - St. Basil the Great

Angel of God and well-beloved brother, I trust myself to your beneficence and implore you humbly to intercede for me with my Spouse, so that He may forgive me my sins, strengthen me in well-doing, help me by His grace to correct my faults, and lead me to Paradise, there to taste the fruition of His presence and to possess eternal life. Amen.  - St. Lydwine of Schiedam

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God. - Saint John Vianney

Ask your angel to console and assist you in your last moments. - Saint John Bosco

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion. - St. Pope Pius X 

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere.  We ought often to invoke them. – Saint John Vianney

Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you. - Saint John Bosco

How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass! – Saint John Vianney

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits.  Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty. - Saint John Vianney

The angels are 'swift messengers - Isaiah 18:2

If we could only see the JOY of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!  - Saint John Vianney

Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her. - Saint John Bosco

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead. - - Saint John Vianney

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him. - Saint John Vianney

Do not try to please everybody.  Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public. - Saint John Vianney

I bind to myself today the power in the love of the Seraphim, in the obedience of the Angels, in the ministration of the Archangels, in the hope of Resurrection unto reward, in the prayers of the Patriarchs, in the predictions of the Prophets, in the preaching of the Apostles, in the faith of the Confessors, in the purity of the holy Virgins, in the deeds of Righteous men.   -St. Patrick of Ireland

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 the sight of your Guardian Angel.  -St. John Bosco

. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. . . This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God. - St. Anthony of Egypt

Our prayers are so dear to God, that he has appointed the angels to present them to him as soon as they come forth from our mouths. 'The angels,' says St. Hilary, 'preside over the prayers of the faithful, and offer them daily to God.' This is that smoke of the incense, which are the prayers of saints, which St. John saw ascending to God from the hands of the angels (Apoc. 8,3); and which he saw in another place represented by golden phials full of sweet odors, very acceptable to God. - St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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