Quotes about Virgin
Immaculate Conception, that if the Virgin would permit him to
- Mark Twain
This town must learn, even against its will, how much it costs to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged. So shall I vindicate my virgin mother and reveal myself to mortals as a God, the son of God.
- Euripides
Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God; Begotten, not made; Being of one substance with the Father; By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man.
- Anonymous
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
- Anonymous
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Anonymous
Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.
- Frank Herbert
In order that Christ's body might be shown to be a real body, He was born of a woman. In order that His Godhead might be made clear, He was born of a virgin.
- Scott Hahn
Christ was born of a woman without the man.
- St. Augustine
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
- St. Anthony of Padua
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
- Ignatius of Loyola
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
- John Milton
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
- Anselm of Canterbury