Quotes about Mary

Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.

With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!

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Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." LUKE 2:19

Many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him. John 11:45

I had liefer that thou shouldst strip the altar of the glorious Virgin, when our need demandeth it, than that thou shouldst attempt aught, be it but a little thing, against our vow of poverty and the observance of the Gospel. For the Blessed Virgin would be better pleased that her altar should be despoiled, and the counsel of the Holy Gospel perfectly fulfilled, than that her altar should be adorned, and the counsel given by her Son set aside.

So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.