"You know," said a nervous voice, "I'm fairly sure I'm supposed to be smiting you right now. Not..." There was a sense of the voice flailing vaguely for words it had never needed ago up until three hours ago, when a certain someone had got a bit peckish and things had gone downhill rather quickly. "...fraternising with the enemy," it finished eventually, sounding vaguely miserable.
"Wouldn't be very sssporting though, would it? Smiting me right now," said another voice, similar to the first in that it was polite, British (not that Britain existed back then, but it was the spirit of the thing, you understand), difficult to identify as either m
All Creatures Great and Small by SparxFlame, literature
Literature
All Creatures Great and Small
Theoretically speaking, angels love everything. Saints, sinners, in-betweeners, rich and poor, every animal from the tiny ant to the elephant... all of God's creation. It's their job; or, at least, one of their jobs.
And, actually, in practice as well as theory, most angels love everything.
The reason they manage to do this is not because angels were granted endless love and boundless compassion by their Father when they were created. The average angel has only as much capacity for love as the average human.
It's because, on a day to day basis, very few angels have anything to do with any of God's creation other than their own siblings in
Good Omens: Love Thine Enemy Ch. 1 by Syntaxeme, literature
Literature
Good Omens: Love Thine Enemy Ch. 1
Wash that man right out of my hair,
I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair.
I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair.
“And send him on his way…” the angel sang under his breath. He was listening to the soundtrack of an old Broadway play, South Pacific, as he cooked. He was cooking because he’d gotten tired of his usual meal at the Ritz. When he’d voiced this sentiment, Crowley had challenged him to make something better. The verse was, “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God,” but tempting His followers was an entirely diffe