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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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.

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

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.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.