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Quotes About Mary

During all this, Mary had been extracting eyes from potatoes with such energy that they had been flying around the kitchen like hailstones. At this moment, one hit me in the eye and caused a momentary pause in the conversation.
~ Agatha Christie
The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
There are so many aspects of the Fatima events that evidence the contemplative infusion of significant graces that produced zeal in the three children, but the one that I want to focus on is the apparition of Mary to the children on July 13, 1917.
~ Ralph Martin
I don't think you'd trust Mary Berry if you found out she couldn't bake a cake.
~ Chris Harris
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.
~ Fulgentius of Cartagena
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.
~ Louis de Montfort
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.
~ Gregory of Nazianzus
A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.
~ John Eudes
Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
~ John Vianney
Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.
~ Pope John Paul II
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.
~ Mark Driscoll
Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.
~ Pope Francis
O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
~ William Butler Yeats
Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.
~ John Shelby Spong
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
~ Pope John Paul II
Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.
~ Mary Caroline Richards
But the take from February 7, 1956 is the one we know today: Gonna-TELL-Aunt-MARy-'BOUT-Uncle-JOHN! That's the backbeat entering American popular music.
~ David K. Kirby
There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.
~ Bridget of Sweden
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
~ Pope Pius XII
Mary is the lily in God's garden.
~ Bridget of Sweden