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"Angels" é uma canção do ato de eletrônica americano Owl City. Foi lançada em 20 de setembro de 2011, para airplay em rádio cristão como o quarto e último single de seu terceiro álbum de estúdio, All Things Bright and Beautiful. Background Falando sobre a canção em uma entrevista com Songfacts, Young afirmou: "I've never had a Lifetime movie encounter with an angel but I definitely do believe they exist and I wanted to write a song to touch on that belief." Composition and lyrics "Angels" foi escrita e produzida por Adam Young. A faixa tem 120 BPM e está na tonalidade de C-sharp minor. O alcance vocal de Young na canção vai das notas B3 – C6. A canção se refere à fé de Young em Deus. A canção menciona referências sobre "the beauty of our surroundings" e que há anjos ao nosso redor, dizendo: "So if you're dying to see, I guarantee there are angels around your vicinity." A canção também faz referência ao espaço com a letra: "Among my frivolous thoughts, I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts." The song features a lot of guitar. Young afirmou: "The song 'Angels' has a lot of electric guitar - I do play electric guitar on stage, along with another guitarist. If there's going to be electric guitar on a track, I want to hit it really hard and then pull out so there's lots of dynamics. I like the guitar to jump out at you."

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Notable quotes

“The people who walk angelically according to their free will and practice discipline in the life of the angels remove themselves completely from the desires of the flesh, beloved brothers; they die daily in the life that belongs to earth, but they live in the life of the angels, just as they share in the life of the Lord.”
— [Athanasius of Alexandria]] “The advanced life of virtue,” Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (1995), p. 314
“One angel cannot perform two duties at a time, nor are two angels sent to perform one and the same duty.”
— 50, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 80-81
“We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?”
— John Page, about the American Revolutionary War in a letter to Thomas Jefferson; quoted in Angel in the Whirlwind (1997) by Benson Bobrick.
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 126.
“And how many angels are in the heavens, whose intercession avails naught except after Allah gives permission to whom He pleases and chooses. Surely those who believe not in the Hereafter name the angels with female names. And they have no knowledge of it. They follow but conjecture, and surely conjecture avails naught against Truth.”
— Quran, chapter 53: 26-28
“If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.”
— Nathaniel Parker Willis, as quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1872) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 11; also in Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers (1909) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 394

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