Tomorrow my daughter Louisiana turns 13. A teenager! I can hardly believe it! I want to pass along to her 13 of my favorite angel quotes. Happy birthday, sweetie pie.
1. “We are nearest the angels when we love.”—Joan Walsh Anglund
2. “Every blade of grass has an angel bending over it saying, ‘Grow, grow.’”—The Talmud
3. “True friendship is a knot the angels have tied.”—Anonymous
4. “Look up, take courage, the angels are nearer than you think.”—Billy Graham
5. “In the infinite meadows of heaven blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots, of angels.”—Longfellow
6. “Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
7. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”—Goethe
8. “The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.”—Plato
9. “Let no man be unworthy of the angel who stands over him.”—Anonymous
10. “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”—Jonathan Swift
11. “Joys are our wings.”—Jean Paul Richter
12. “Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.”—Pascal
13. “I am a little world made cunningly of elements, and an angelic sprite.”—John Donne
