Quotes About Virgins

There were doomed virgins (downcast eyes, clasped hands), and imitations of mortality, skin like marble, faces like masques, a supernatural radiance, the phosphorescent glow we sometimes attribute to angels, and to decaying flesh.

Are convents so essential to the constitution of a state? Did Jesus Christ institute monks and nuns? Can the Church really not do without them? What need has the bridegroom of so many foolish virgins, and what need has the human race of so many victims?

I believe,' said Marcus Furius, 'that an order of male virgins who never see the light of day would be ideal for the operation of a computing machine such as this.

As a self-described Guadalupe girl, Lupe was sensitive to Guadalupe being overshadowed by the "Mary Monster." Lupe not only meant that Mary was the most dominant of the Catholic Church's "stable" of virgins; Lupe believed that the Virgin Mary was also "a domineering virgin.

notorious adulterer who compounded his sin by cavorting 'with holy nuns and virgins consecrated to God'.

The hair is the richest ornament of women. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones?

In Rome, Matt had told her, 'I knew that if I kept up my playing, we would have a baby.' That was what music represented to him now: a bargain he had sought with fate. In a less anaemic age, he would have sacrificed virgins or immaculate lambs.

The decent father had begged the matchmaker to find grooms for his unmarried daughters, since it was better for virgins to marry anyone than to scrounge for food when men and women were hungry, and virtue was expensive.

Then the kingís attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the kingís gate.

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lordís mercy is trustworthy.