Celestial Intervention Quotes

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

If I were the Archangel Gabriel, madam, I’m afraid you would not be in my constituency.

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big boulder of misery over your path about to fall on you, but your friends among the dead hold it back until you have passed by.

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.