"God is the brightest of lights which can never be extinguished, and the choirs of angels radiate light from the divinity. Angels are pure praise without any trace of a bodily deed." –St. Hildegard of Bingen
"God is humanity's universal teacher and guardian, but his teaching to humanity is mediated by angels."—St. Thomas Aquinas
"Since God often sends us his inspirations by means of his angels, we ought frequently to offer him our aspirations through the same channel. ... Call on them and honor them frequently, and ask their help in all your affairs, temporal as well as spiritual."—St. Francis de Sales
"If you remembered the presence of your angel and the angels of your neighbors, you would avoid many of the foolish things which slip into your conversations."—St. Josemaria Escriva
"We should show our affection for the angels, for one day they will be our coheirs just as here below they are our guardians and trustees appointed and set over us by the Father."—St. Bernard of Clairvaux
"At the orders of the queen, the angels frequently assisted the apostles in their travels and tribulations ... The angels often visited them in visible shapes, conversing with them and consoling them in the name of the most blessed Mary."—St. Mary of Agreda
"I have great reverence for Saint Michael the Archangel; he had no example to follow in doing the will of God, and yet he fulfilled God's will faithfully."—St. Faustina Kowalska
"The good angels hold cheap all that knowledge of material and transitory things which the demons are so proud of possessing -- not that they are ignorant of these things, but because of the love of God, whereby they are sanctified, is very dear to them, and because, in comparison of that not merely immaterial but also unchangeable and ineffable beauty, with the holy love of which they are inflamed, they despise all things which are beneath it, and all that is not it, that they may with every good thing that is in them enjoy that good which is the source of their goodness."—St. Augustine
"Those closest to God in heaven, the seraphim, are called the fiery ones because more than the other angels they take their fervor and ardor from the intense fire of God."—St. Robert Bellarmine
"Pride and nothing else caused an angel to fall from heaven. And so one my reasonably ask whether one may reach heaven by humility alone without the help of any other virtue."—St. John Climacus
"Is there a greater happiness than to imitate on earth the choir of angels?"—St. Basil the Great
"Although the angels are superior to us in many ways, yet in some respects ... they fall short of us with regard to being in the image of the Creator; for we, rather than they, have been created in God's image."—St. Gregory Palamas
"We are not angels but we have bodies, and it is madness for us to want to become angels while we are still on earth."—St. Teresa of Avila
"If we detect an angel by the effect he is producing, let us hasten to pray since our heavenly guardian has come to join us."—St. John Climacus
"Let us be like the holy angels now. ... If one day we are to be in the angelic court, we must learn how, while we are still here, the manners of the angels."—St. Vincent Ferrer
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