Virgin Mary Repeatedly

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

    This is the month, and this the happy morn,
    Wherein the Son of heav’n’s eternal King,
    Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born,
    Our great redemption from above did bring.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 10:41,42.

    Jesus to Martha.

    It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)