What do these quotes imply?

I suppose, when taken in unison, they imply gods are everywhere.

Although, I think the second one implies that one should not be dissuaded from believing in something because there is no concrete evidence.

Why do you ask?

You could also read the second one in a sarcastic tone as saying that angels aren’t that great (i.e. we are all angels and look at how flawed we are).

The first quote could imply that everyone always wants to move up the ladder.

I’m writing an essay and I need a quote that has to do with angels and people being one in the same by someone respectable, and these are the only 2 I found. BUT I need to know what they are implying and I’m not sure what you mean by your interpretation

@roundsquare Couldn’t the second quote mean, “don’t be fooled, there are good people everywhere, more than you think”....?

@jabag11 Sure. I was just feeling cynical at the moment. Without background on the person or conversation, you could interpret them to mean good or bad things. For example, for the first quote, you could interpret it that men aspire to be as good as angels and angels aspire to be as good as god.

@jabag11, why do you need a quote that says they are one and (not “in”) the same? In all my reading, I can’t think of an author who has said this. There are lots of quotes to be found about angels, but they invariably reflect a view that angels (if they exist) are something apart, something higher than men. There would be no point in speaking of angels at all if they were nothing other than mortals like ourselves. Even if we don’t believe in them, we generally understand that what is meant by the term is not just ordinary people.

The implication in each is that angels exist. At least that is what I infer.

The first quote is more about ambition than angels. The second is too vague. I prefer this quote from Maimonides “Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.”

thanks for the help everyone. I have another question irrelevant from quotes but still relevant to my essay I’ve been working on for 5 to 6 hours now…. I was wondering How can I put my last name and page number on the top right corner of each page? MLA format. I cant just type it, I need to insert it. How can I do this, help please.
@flutherother @josie @Jeruba @roundsquare @athenasgriffin

If you’re in Word, goto View, ‘Headers & Footers’, Autotext menu/button bar should pop up as well as a header & a footer box. You can write your name in the header box, then select date from the AutoText button bar (that’ll automactically insert the date), once finished then go back into View, deselect Headers & Footers.
Hope this helps.

As @flutherother said above, the first quote is all about ambition. [some] Men think they are as good/worthy as angels. Some angels [Lucifer, for example] think they are the equal of god.

Given who Faye Diane Kilday is, her quote expresses a belief in either angels or the angelic nature of humankind.

How many men can dance on the head of a pin? How many gods?

How about this Bible quotation? Hebrews 13.2. It’s the source of the expression “to entertain angels unawares.”

King James:
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

New Living Translation:
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!