The Quotable Angel A Treasury of Inspiring Quotations Spanning the Ages [Hardcover]

Exquisitely designed with classic drawings and engravings, this uplifting volume of timeless words contains hundreds of selections relating to the increasingly popular topic of angels. Includes quotes from classic and contemporary times and from such varied sources as Catholic prayers, African proverbs, Dante, Curtis Sliwa and Zora Neal Hurston. Features thumbnail sketches of all people and works quoted.

A companion volume to Wiley's The Quotable Soul, this book contains more than 1,000 quotations relating to the increasingly popular subject of angels, from such diverse and secular sources as Catholic prayers, African proverbs, Dante, Curtis Silwa, Zora Neale Hurston, and Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.

LEE ANN CHEARNEY is president and editorial director of Amaranth, an independent book producer. She was formerly managing editor of the award-winning magazine Antaeus.
ELIZABETH SPIRES is the author of four collections of poems and teaches writing at Goucher College and Johns Hopkins University.

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way. . . . --Exodus 23:2

To embody the transcendent is why we are here. --Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. --G. K. Chesterton

They lift our spirits and nurture our souls. They watch over us, protect us, and guide us. They are the messengers of heaven.

Now, The Quotable Angel gathers together hundreds of quotations on the subject of angels, from biblical times to the present. Here is a radiant treasury to delight the mind and spirit. The power of angels shines through Catholic prayers and African proverbs, Dante and Dickinson, Shakespeare and Shaw. Pilots, presidents, politicians, and more also illuminate the profound nature of angelic grace. Clustered into topics ranging from Guardian Angels and Angels of Mercy to Angels' Voices and Angels of the Natural World, these quotations arlS_