I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
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.
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.
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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