Mary Quotes - Page 2

• I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.

  Tina Fey

  Bed, Guarantees, Birth

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mother, Religious, Trials

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• As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Religious, Stars

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• After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Religious, Jesus

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• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Travel, Adventure, Moon

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2014). “She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility, that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Hitn and serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Religious, Jesus

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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  My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  Jack Benny

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary's finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that's what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Stars, Sleep

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.58, Harper Collins

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• Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Powerful, Army

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• Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Greatness, Want, Facts

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

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• Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

  Pope John Paul II

  Son, Catholic

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• The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Religious, Angel, Bears

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• All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Mother, Religious, Children

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• Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.

  Pope Pius X

  Crush, Religious, Powerful

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Popes and the Papacy" by Brandon Toropov, (p. 26), 2001.

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Religious, Father, Son

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• May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Feet, World

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• Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Religious, Blessed, Thinking

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.103, Ignatius Press

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

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Knowing, Mind

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• When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Totally whatever we want to put in there. Then it was really "Now we are going to make it. We really need to find a consistent tone."I think the pilot ["Mary and Jane"] actually got it. It was more about the other episodes making sure everything else.

  Harry Elfont

  Thinking, Tone, Needs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Eye, Helping

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• She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.

  J.R. Ward

  Brotherhood, Letters, Nine

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.368, Penguin

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• I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

  Mary Roach

  Fighting, Mind, Listening

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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• Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Empathy, Apathy

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