Top 50 Quotes About Seraphim
#1. That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?
Laini Taylor
#2. Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
Laini Taylor
#3. The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.
Anne Rice
#4. The choice I mean is to protect our own innocents from the seraphim, instead of slaughtering theirs."
"There are no innocent seraphim, said the wolf."
"That's what they say when they kill our children.
Laini Taylor
#5. Father? Abba, Father! He who can say this, hath uttered better music than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word
Father! There is all I can ask; all my necessities can demand; all my wishes can desire.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#6. Seraphim, you understand? Not frilly angels with blousy pink wings and haloes like wedding rings. These ones had wheels full of eyes and voices like the noise of the deep.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy Graham
#8. The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.
Rumi
#9. Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve?
Herman Melville
#10. The helmed Cherubim,
And sworded Seraphim,
Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.
John Milton
#11. In freedom you form in utter disgrace,
the bars of my prison this night.
While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,
it is I who deserve to take flight.
Craig Froman
#12. The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly. The Church is the communion of saints, and it includes as members both angels and shepherds - cherubim and seraphim, and you, and me.
Scott Hahn
#13. He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.
Laini Taylor
#14. Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
John Milton
#15. In the legends, chimaera were sprung from tears and seraphim from blood, but in this moment they are, all of them, children of regret.
Laini Taylor
#16. The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called ... 'friends.
Jose N. Harris
#17. Quoting Father Seraphim:
Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#18. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#19. In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
Charles Spurgeon
#20. Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God. ... Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.
Seraphim Rose
#21. It is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?
Seraphim Of Sarov
#22. Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner eye the Sun of justice, Christ! Then in truth one rejoices with angelic joy; of this the Apostle too said: 'Our conversation is in heaven' (Phil. 3:20).
Seraphim Of Sarov
#23. My love, I'd volunteer to live a thousand lives if I got to spend any part of them with you.
Debra Anastasia
#24. She opened her eyes with a gasp. "I love you." He had tears running a path down his face. He nodded. "Back at ya, pretty child. So, so much.
Debra Anastasia
#25. Hey, pretty child. You're a sight for sore fucking eyes.
Debra Anastasia
#26. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#27. Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them
Fr. Seraphim Rose
#28. It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian.
Seraphim Rose
#29. The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from falling into a still greater sin-pride. Your temptation will pass and you will spend the remaining days of your life in humility. Only do not forget your sin.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#30. Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#31. Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).
Seraphim Of Sarov
#32. Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#33. How can it be wrong? Love picks the right path, not the one of least resistance.
Debra Anastasia
#34. Even when I try to do good I can't ever seem to get it right, and I know I've made my share of mistakes because of that. But saving you was never one of them. I'll do it as many times as I have to. I'll save all of you. Just trust me. Please.
R.R. Washburn
#35. The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#36. Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#37. Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?
Mamoru Oshii
#38. I love you in such a greedy way, I'm guilty
about it." She tilted her head back as he moved his lips to her throat.
"Guilty is for crimes. Always is for love.
Debra Anastasia
#39. The human spirit lies open to God alone, for it is a fathomless depth.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#40. Establish yourself in God and then you will be helpful to others.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#41. Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ, mentally saying: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#42. I'm not leaving you. Right here, right now is the happiest I've ever been. I love you. That means I don't leave. Sorry.
Debra Anastasia
#43. A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog.
Mamoru Oshii
#44. Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.
Seraphim Rose
#45. Only with the idea (which has become rare today) that there is a revealed truth that is above all experience, can this occult realm be enlightened, its true nature recognized and a discernment made between this lower realm and the higher realm of heaven.
Seraphim Rose
#46. Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of God awaits those who have patiently endured. And all the glory of the world is nothing in comparison. My joy! I implore you to acquire a peaceful spirit.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#47. Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
Seraphim Rose
#48. And you matter. You fucking matter to me! So you're not allowed to die, you stupid, arrogant dogdick!
R.R. Washburn
#50. Okay, how's this? I've been to Heaven and Hell. I've seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is this: being inside you. I love you so much. You're all I see.
Debra Anastasia
