“ I see no reason that a man should have any issue with worshiping a goddess any more than a woman would in worshiping a male deity. It is undeniable that women, particularly in the Abrahamic faiths, ha… Thomm Quackenbush
“ When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God. Margot McCuaig
“ Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. Osamu Dazai
“ Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. Hans Urs von Balthasar
“ Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. Hans Urs von Balthasar
“ The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbi… Karl Barth
“ In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. The g… Kenneth Clark
“ Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. Willa Cather
“ We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away. Kelli Russell Agodon
