The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
By that sin fell the angels.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Desire creates the power.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.