Angel Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

— Josh Billings

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

— Rumi

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is:…

— Meister Eckhart

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

— Thomas Carlyle

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to…

— Augustus Hare

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.

— Swami Vivekananda

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

— James Martineau

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

— Khalil Gibran