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“The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.”

Needs Feet Angel Stones Glances Stairs Radiant Strands Stairways Evanescence

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature.”

Christ Animal Common Existence Share Creatures Angel All Things Stones Embrace Plant Sensations Transformed Fullness

Author:Bonaventure

“Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.”

Eye Heaven Prayer Angel Stones Roof Ladders Dungeons Shrines

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.”

Jesus Lord Angel Stones Outsiders Tombs

Author:Donald Barnhouse

“I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.”

Want Artist Devil Angel Stones Saint Dragons Cathedrals

Book:The seventh seal: a film

Source: The seventh seal: a film

“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.”

Feels I Can Building Spring Angel Stones Breathing Crumbling Gargoyles

Book:, said the shotgun to the head.

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”

Source: The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865

“There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.”

Source: Hush, Hush

“Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.”

“The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.”

Inspiration Known Path Rocks Angel Stones Block Trails Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Charles Ghigna