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“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.”

Ifs Men Wells Heart Remember Chance Lows Angel Argument Raises Execution Hitting Pointing Eloquence Oratory

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.”

Ifs Littles Able Spirit Sky Angel Raises Mortals Thank God Drag Gifted

Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]”

Ifs Want Hands Challenges Boys Laughing Son Promise Angel Tests Raises My Son Want Me Embarrassed Tested Abraham Defiance Genesis

Author:Elie Wiesel

“If I had used the term "guardian angels" or spoke of our "guides," a lot fewer eyebrows would raise. So it's just a matter of terminology here. The main idea is that we are always recipients of God's help, whether it is through other of God's beloved creatures, or directly from the Divine Itself.”

Ifs Ideas Matter Helping Used Term Divine Creatures Angel Raises Guides Beloved Spokes Fewer Guardian Eyebrows Guardian Angel Terminology

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.”

Wish Doubt Seeing Angel Raises Innocent Not Sure Smooth Foe Wrinkles Heathcliff Surly

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.”

Source: Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]

“You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.”

Giving May Littles Divine Angel Raises Bread Sacraments Dew Eucharist Blessed Sacrament

Book:Thoughts of Saint Thérèse

Source: Thoughts of Saint Thérèse

“You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.”

Feels Should Helping Remember Desire Interest Inspiring Angel Resources Lonely Raises Shining Superiors Contact Fearful Defeated Neglected Feeling Lonely

Author:Flower A. Newhouse