Heavenly host

Heavenly host refers to the army of angels mentioned both in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

Quotes

 * I cannot live with God and with men. The thousands and ten thousands of the heavenly hosts have but one will, while men have many. So I cannot leave God to be with men.
 * Abba Arsenius, in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, as translated by Benedicta Ward, SLG (Cistercian Publications: 1975), Saying 13, Page 11


 * O Glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of the heavenly host, be our defense in the terrible warfare which we carry on against principalities and Powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, spirits of evil.
 * Leo XIII, Prayer to Saint Michael (1888)