Mary Quotes - Page 13

• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Queens, Heaven, Reign

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• The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Heart, Sun, Lord

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• O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God!

  Bridget of Sweden

  Giving, Assistance

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• To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Salvation, Mark, Eternal

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• I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.

  Todd Haynes

  Play, Drawing, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!

  Fidelis of Sigmaringen

  Mother, Jesus, Passion

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.

  Niall Williams

  Uplifting, Heart, Holiday

  Niall Williams, Christine Breen (1989). “O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare”, Soho PressInc

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• O name of Mary! Joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of Her devout clients!

  Anthony of Padua

  Heart, Names, Joy

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• If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

  Margaret Smith

  Religion, Said, Virgins

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• It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Son, Honor

  Calvini Opera, Volume 45, 348, 1877-1878.

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• Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.

  Isidore of Seville

  Mean, Light, World

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• When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Flower, Taken, Son

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• Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save.

  Andrew of Crete

  Salvation, Servant, Grants

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• I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.

  Louis de Montfort

  Men, Knowing, Rosary

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• Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

  John Calvin

  Envy, Doe, Praise

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.43, Ravenio Books

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• Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

  Peter Agre

  Commitment, Two, Wife

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• What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

  Frank Crowninshield

  America, France, Century

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• Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Teaching, Rights

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Opening Ceremony, Leon, Carols

  "Do You Sometimes Mispronounce Designer Names? This TV Star Does and Totally Owns It". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2014.

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• Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Looks, News, Might

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

  Jessye Norman

  Wise, Kindness, Book

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• A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it.

  T. R. Pearson

  Regret, Past, Smell

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• [Matt] Lindland looks just like 'Woogie' from 'There's Something
  About Mary', how am I possibly supposed to take this guy seriously?

  Phil Baroni

  Guy, Looks, This Guy

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• With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.

  Ildefonsus

  Religious, Blessed, Mean

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• A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

  Russell Baker

  One Day, Dimes, Bars

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