Blessed Virgin Mary

Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:

““What must I do to become blessed?” That I do not know, but I say to you: “Be blessed and then do whatever you please.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Flower picking.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2710, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)