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Angels3 quotes
Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point? — William Chillingworth · 1637Of all the questions you might want to ask
about angels, the only one you ever hear
is how many can dance on the head of a pin.
No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time
besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin
or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth
or guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge. — Billy Collins · 1991And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. — Genesis 28:12 · 1405 BCScholasticism1 quote
Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point? — William Chillingworth · 1637