Blessed Virgin Mary

Famous quotes containing the words blessed and/or virgin:

“They say that my donkey-hearted lover
might leave sometime tomorrow.
Grow long, Blessed Night,
so that for him
tomorrow just won’t be.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“A hidden strength
Which if Heav’n gave it, may be term’d her own:
‘Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has that, is clad in compleat steel,
And like a quiver’d Nymph with Arrows keen
May trace huge Forests, and unharbour’d Heaths,
Infamous Hills, and sandy perilous wildes,
Where through the sacred rayes of Chastity,
No savage fierce, Bandite, or mountaneer
Will dare to soyl her Virgin purity,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)