It is said to stand at the loftiest point in Paradise, and to mark the place beyond which neither men nor angels can pass.
A reference to Islámic symbolism, according to which good is protected from evil: the angels repel such evil spirits as attempt to spy on Paradise, by hurling shooting stars at them.
In the stillness of the night the angels had been there, and had taken a redeemed soul back with them into the everlasting habitations of the blessed.
Angels and piskies, long-stones and crosses, glory to 'em all.
Boodles belonged to the angels, and he told her so with foolish expressions; but she shook her glorious red head at him and declared that beetles and angels had nothing in common.
Her had got a mazed notion about the cleave and resurrection, wi' angels flapping over, and her wanted my goosies for angels.
So Peter druve the goosies down cleave, and her painted 'em for angels sure 'nuff.
To thee all Angels and Archangels, Thrones and Principalities, faithfully do service.
In this place the chorus and singing of the angels continued for three whole days.
The Apostles and others sang, as the coffin was borne from Sion to Gethsemane, angels preceding, surrounding, and following it.
I cannot find in the inspired Apostles any reference to the necessity, the duty, the lawfulness, the expediency of our seeking by prayer the good offices of the holy dead, or of the angels of light.
If there is any one thing on this fallen earth that theangels in heaven weep over--more than another, it is the onion.
O may his soule in sweet Mizium sleepe, Untill the Keeper that all soules doth keepe, Returne to judgement and that after thence, With Angels he may have his recompence.
The vast portal opened, and from it marched a host such as man had never seen before, such as man shall never see but once again; the guardian angelsof the city of David!
Twenty fine Angels must come into town, All for to help you to make your new gown: Dainty aerial Spinsters and Singers; Aren't you ashamed to employ such white fingers?
But fools rush in where angels fear to tread, Far out amid the melancholy main; As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Dies of a rose in aromatic pain.
Therefore Cathedral Park says to those who wish to breathe the same air as the angels while they are yet on the earth: Come to us and we will meet your reasonable wishes in every possible way.
Cottage-children, wherever seen in groups, she wreathed above with angelsto watch them.
Those are the angels who cause us to think of changeing.
Blindly they seek, but that all-seeing Eye That sees the tiny sparrow when it falls, Is watching them, His angels hover near.
Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love!
The shooting stars are pieces of red-hot stone, thrown by angels at impure spirits when they approach too closely.
Thy brother angels at thy birth Strung each his lyre, and tuned it high, That all the people of the sky Might know a poetess was born on earth; And then, if ever, mortal ears Had heard the music of the spheres.
In the popular superstition angels and genii largely figure.
Narrow-minded pedantry and injudicious ignorance often rush in, to responsibilities and duties that angels might well tremble to assume--the moulding for good or evil, the flexile souls of children during the most vital years of their lives.
Let them remember that mercy was not yet withdrawn, that a period was not yet put to His forgiveness; but how near the time might be, how short the term of their probation, none could tell, not even the angels in heaven.
Do you really think, Phyllis, that angels care about our earthly loves?
And you see, then, how even good angels may hev to be varry prudent about t' blessings they hev on t' road to us.
I have often thought of good angels around me; but we may well 'work out our salvation with fear and trembling,' if evil ones are waiting to hinder us at every turn.
Mebbe it isnt allays as easy for God's angels to do his will as we think for.
If human love wounds and wrongs us, are we not circled by angels as the stars by heaven?
There are four words that you can say, which will shake the gates of heaven; which will make the Father meet you, and the elder Brother welcome you, and the angels sing for joy.
Then you think, Martha, that the Bible teaches us that evil as well as good angels interfere in human life?
If we talk of heaven on earth, surely they talk of earth in heaven; and if the angels are glad when a sinner repents, they must also feel joy in the joy and justification of the righteous.
Spiritism and the Fallen Angels From a Biblical Viewpoint.
Prosody the song of angels and no earthly or inglorious theme.
Why, although innumerable historic writings claim their existence, do people no longer believe in angels and demons?
The universe is explained either upon the basis of a hierarchy of abstract principles like the Æons of Gnosticism and the Sephirotic tree of the Kabala, or upon that of an order of angels apparently borrowed from the Persian doctrine.
Amongst the persecuted Protestants, a report was spread that angels had been heard chanting psalms in the ruins of a recently destroyed temple; the whole company went to the place and heard the same psalm.
This apparition of angelsis even introduced into the story of the fourth Gospel (xx.
So this pair, that were almost as the angels in the greatness of their love, pledged their troths with the simplicity of children, and parted with the innocence of children, as gentle and as chaste.
I could praise her beauty with the tongue of men, and leave the tongue of angels out of the question; and if my muse were pleased here and there to take a wanton flutter, I knew I could give decorum the go-by with a light heart.
I think if the angels in heaven were ever to make love to one another they would choose for their purpose some such perfection of speech as Dante--for I knew the singer to be Dante a little later--found for his sonnets and canzone.
And angels were all around me, and I saw the throne of heaven.
The Mussulman fable relates that when Allah created man, and placed him in a garden, he called all the angels to worship this crowning work of his hands.
They might have been winged angels but for their hair of flame and cruel hooks.
As he lay there angels caused lilies to grow beneath and around him, and myrtle to rise and intertwine for a bower over him, and their happy voices, wafted in low-toned hymns, brought soft sleep to his overwrought senses.
And she would not yield even after the angels had been sent again to convey to her, as the alternative of not returning, the doom that she should bear many children but these should all die in infancy.
She remained hovering over the Red Sea, where the angels had found her, while these returned with her inflexible resolution.
Around it, in its place at the east of Eden, sang six hundred thousand lovely angels with happy hymns, and it glorified the vast garden.
The angels were cast down to Pits prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and before it, and when they fell it was into the hands of already existing enemies eager to torment them.
A fair idea of the insignificance he and his angels reached may be gained from the accompanying picture (Fig.
The Creator then sent three angels to find Lilith and persuade her to return to the garden; but she declared that it could be no paradise to her if she was to be the servant of man.
In one of them, for instance, the Archangel Michael is called upon to secure the invoker behind an iron door fastened by twenty-seven locks, the keys of which are given to the angels to be carried to heaven.
Adam, when dying, desired Seth to procure the oil of mercy (for his extreme unction) from the angels guarding Paradise.
Brothers, build such a character as will cause Christ and the angels to rejoice when they behold it.
Its writers were the tallest white angels literature has known.
He slept little, dreamed that his hair was madly growing, and saw two angels who unfolded, as they do in melodramas, a scroll on which was written "Oil Cesarine.
If it were not, then we must deny the warfare between the angelsof light and the spirits of darkness.
Du Tillet could not meet his eye, and no doubt vowed to him at that moment the undying hatred which the spirits of darkness feel towards the angels of light.
He was unable to stir from his place before the bar, and seemed for a moment nailed there, gazing at the judges with a wondering air, as though they were angels opening to him the gates of social life.
No ambition had ever crept into that pure heart, which the angels would some day carry to God in all its pristine innocence.
We hear the rustle of the violet silken curtains which the angels raise.
Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory" = he knew that he was to act as final judge of the human race.
The Jewish doctrine of angels is expanded in his doctrine of the Logos.
God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell.
It is sometimes objected that the ascription of the name God to Christ proves nothing as to his absolute deity, since angels and even human judges are called gods, as representing God's authority and executing his will.
It is possible that the elect angels belong to a moral system in which sin is prevented by constraining motives.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
Perhaps the angels cannot count; but, if they can, this axiom is true for them.
Jesus was in heaven at the revolt of the angels, yet he tells us little aboutangels or about heaven.
And let all the angelsof God worship him"), his baptism (Mat.
They welcomed her this morning and thronged about her downcast eyes with many angels too that like Tobit's angel walked by her side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "angels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
