The Angels Quotes

“Peace be to you; fear not.” As he said this, both father and son fell upon the ground on their faces, for suddenly the human form of Azarias was transfigured into that of an Archangel of light and beauty, and the final revelation came: “I am the Angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“An Angel, as every spiritual substance, is said to be present or localized in a particular place not by reason of his own substance being coextended with and circumscribed by space, like material bodies, but merely by virtue of his power being applied to a specific object or a particular place.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“Sin cannot exist where there is no free will.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“Leo XIII, on July 5, 1883, raised the rank of this feast to double major, a rank which it still retains.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“With respect for the presence of your Angel, with love for his goodness, with confidence for his care of you…. Wherever you dwell, into whatsoever corner you retire, have great respect for your Angel. Would you dare in his presence to do that which you would not dare to do in my presence? Do you doubt his presence because you do not see him? … Not all that exists, nay, even not all that is corporeal and material is seen; for how much greater reason, then, do spiritual realities escape our senses, and need to be sought by the mind?”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“I believe that the good Angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are about him, so that he shall return to us with joy.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“Speaking of the fallen Angels, the Apostle Saint Jude singles out the Principalities as most representative of the Angelic Choirs in which defection occurred: “The angels who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness, in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“Following are the nine Choirs of Angels in their descending hierarchical order: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones; Dominations, Virtues, Powers; Principalities, Archangels, Angels.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“The diabolical perversity and cruelty, manifested by so many people in this present generation, living in the most enlightened period of human history, cannot be explained without the presence, in our midst, of an evil genius who delights in man’s suffering and despair. This unseen evil genius is Satan.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“He sinned by pride and seduced the others by his example and his lies.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“According to Dionysius, a Hierarchy is a threefold order and a coequal unity.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“THE SUPREME HIERARCHY
Seraphim—Cherubim—Thrones
II. MIDDLE HIERARCHY
Dominations—Virtues—Powers
III. LOWER HIERARCHY
Principalities—Archangels—Angels”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Principalities, Powers, Virtues, Archangels and Angels.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“This is because each Angel is a pure form. Now, every differentiation in form implies differentiation in species. Human beings, no matter what their race, belong all to one and the same species. They differ only individually by some material or moral quality that does not alter substantially their specific nature of a rational creature composed of body and soul.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“This Angelic language, or conversation, is called illumination.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“their personality is far superior to human personality.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“The classical definition of a person, by Boethius, applies to them most perfectly: a person is an individual substance of a rational nature.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“This opinion of the Angelic Doctor regarding the nature of the Angels has become the common doctrine. They are pure spirits, not composed of matter and form, but composed of essence and existence, of act and potentiality.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“The Council divided all creatures into three classes: the purely spiritual, the Angels; the purely material, the material world; and the partly spirit, partly matter, human beings.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“the Angels are pure spirits, incorporeal substances, free and independent of any material body, ethereal or otherwise.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]

“There are no more Angels today than when they were first created at the beginning of time. They filled the heavens from the start, and their number was complete from the beginning.”
― Pascale Parente, The Angels: In Catholic Teaching and Tradition (with Supplemental Reading: Favorite Prayers to Our Lady) [Illustrated]