Quotes about Mary
We too must remain faithful to the 'yes' we have given to the Lord's offer of friendship. We know that he will never abandon us. We know that he will always sustain us through the gifts of the Spirit. Mary accepted the Lord's' proposal' in our name. So let us turn to her and ask her to guide us as we struggle to remain faithful to the life-giving relationship God has established with each one of us.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Dear brothers and sisters after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. In the joy of the resurrected Lord, we go on with his help. He is going to help us and Mary will be on our side. Thank you
- Pope Benedict XVI
Mary was still thinking in terms of a dead body when Jesus confronted her with His living presence.
- James Montgomery Boice
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
- St. Augustine
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
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
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
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
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
- Mary Baker Eddy
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
- St. Augustine
Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.
- Peter Kreeft
As many serve the Virgin as serve God.
- Bernardino of Siena