Quotes About Mary

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

In as early as the second century, Irenaeus offered theological reflection on Mary as the "second Eve" who, through her radical submission and obedience to God, reversed the deadly consequences of Eve's rebellion.

In the letters section, a Scot reminds his readers of the 'Glorious Alliance' between France and Mary Queen of Scots, which explains why Scotland should not share the rabid Europhobia of Englishmen.

Two hundred years before, in the days of the Tudors, Bloody Queen Mary had used the conveniently open space to burn Protestants to save their souls, and her sister, Elizabeth, had in turn used it to burn an even greater number of Catholics, because that's what royals did with people they hated.

MARY: I don't think you have dulcet tones. Dulcet means sweet. When are you ever sweet? CATHERINE: My most dulcet tones. I was using the superlative. Everyone has a most something, even if it's not very much. BEATRICE: I think Catherine can be quite sweet when she wants to. CATHERINE: I just don't want to very often.

During the 'The Great British Bake Off' I didn't get to know Mary all that well. We weren't allowed to interact with the judges outside of their moments of critique and commentary.

Across media platforms, "Typhoid Mary" is still casually applied to contemporary menaces of public health, ignoring the ethically dubious practice of blaming healthy carriers and Mary Mallon's persecution as a poor immigrant at the turn of the 20th century.

What you're calling upon me to believe in, I believe in already," Hajj Mahmud began. "As a Muslim, I believe in more prophets than you do as a Christian. As you may have noticed, we swear by the life of our Lady Mary and our Masters Jesus and Moses, just as we swear by the life of our Master Muhammad.

There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the briefest instant, his brain was the only thing that reacted. Mistake, thought his brain. Then the mouthful of water, mixed with what remained of the almond toffee crunch, fire hosed out of his mouth, arced across the table and hit Mary Turlington just above her bosom.

I love a lassie a bonnie bonnie lassie She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather The bonnie bloomin' heather Mary ma Scotch Blue-bell.

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

We humbly beg your kind applause," murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face.

Mary wrapped Jesus in strips of cloth and gently laid him in a manger.

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...

Mary held her heart, contracted into a point of agony.

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

He threatened you, Mary? And your mother?" "It was just the liquor talking, I'm sure, Fred. Even that Sherman lot wouldn't harm a woman." "For his sake, I'd better not see any of them try. Or even speak of it.

Mary was under water. She'd been under water for a long time. Rhiannon was there. No, it was just her severed head talking. The murdered girl's hair billowed out from under the torc.

Anna did say the wife of Lir had left her?" whispered Mary. "Yes," said Caroline. "She said, 'for now.

Since you, O my Jesus, have been so liberal with your graces toward me and have deigned to give your Blood and your life for me, I am sorry for having acted with so little generosity toward you, who are worthy of all honor and all love. But, O my Jesus, you know my weakness; help me with your powerful grace. In you I confide, O Immaculate Virgin Mary, help me to overcome myself and to become a saint. Amen.

Mary's life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden, sorrowful and afflicted, but she also knew joys that never entered the heart of man. She is all things to all men that she might understand their failings, though she failed not.

There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.