Angels show up in scripture, in art, and in the quiet corners of our own lives. As St. Augustine urged, we can “Make friends with angels.” These quotations celebrate unseen helpers, everyday kindness, and the people who become angels for one another.

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help that another angel has given you. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman

There must be an angel playing with my heart. ~ Annie Lennox

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light. ~ Billy Graham

We are each other’s angels; we meet when it is time. ~ Chuck Brodsky

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~ Jean Paul Richter

We are each other’s angels in the way that we answer each other’s prayers, and we can also make each other’s lives miserable. ~ Jewel Kilcher

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped, and I’m always referring to them in my work. ~ Melissa Etheridge

We are one another’s angels. ~ Nevada Barr

Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings. ~ John Keats

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it’s never happened yet. ~ Mark Twain

Men must know that in this theater of man’s life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers-on. ~ Francis Bacon

All God’s angels come to us disguised. ~ James Russell Lowell

A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. ~ Irish Blessing