Consecration To Mary Quotes & Sayings

I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect - and help, if necessary - than many people who are superficially more successful. — Ben Bernanke

If we were not pushing, fighting, claiming what is ours and challenging what is not yet ours, others would be doing it to us. It is the way of the world. You can be the aggressor, you can fight against crusaders on their own land, or you can stay at home and wait for them to come to you. And they would come. They would come with fire, with disease, with swords and blood and death. Weakness is an irresistible lure. — Kiersten White

Art has an obligation to offend — Edward Albee

Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration ... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary — Pope John Paul II

She has the kind of beauty that shames your understanding of the word.
She is the waking dream I've had for so long. — Kirk Diedrich

He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Marian consecration basically means giving Mary our full permission (or as such permission as we can) to complete her motherly task in us, which is to form us into other Christs. Thus, by consecrating ourselves to Mary, each of us is saying to her: Mary, I want to be a saint. I know that you also want me to be a saint and that it's your God-given mission to form me into one. So, Mary, at this moment, on this day, I freely choose to give you my full permission to do your work in me, with your Spouse, the Holy Spirit. — Michael Gaitley

Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You. — Anthony Mary Claret

What makes you happy?"
"This," he said simply. "I like being with you. — Victoria Vane

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened. — Grimes

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do we hope when all hope is lost? — Brodi Ashton

It's like kissing a Jack 'o' Lantern. What's with the grin? — Alice Clayton

Atticus, are we going to win it?" "No, honey." "Then, why - " "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said. — Harper Lee