If Men Were Angels Quotes

#1. If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

#2. If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

James Madison

#3. Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Christopher Dawson

#4. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James Madison

#5. Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

Edward Young

#6. The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

Rafael Arnaiz Baron

#7. A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel's report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.

Israel Shenker

#8. But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that be which shall follow His glorious advent! For He shall come on the clouds as the Son of man, so Daniel foretold, and His angels shall come with Him.

Justin Martyr

#9. In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

John Donne

#10. But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

#11. 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.

William Blake

#12. If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Dagobert D. Runes

#13. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from?

Amit Kalantri

#14. Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

Ellen G. White

#15. There is a very great difference - is there not? - between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.

Price Collier

#16. Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity.

John Donne

#17. Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#18. Be not too hasty," said Imlac, "to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson