--- title: "1 Like Mary Quotes By Carrie Gress" description: "1 Like Mary quotes by Carrie Gress. Plus more from Carrie Gress and more Like Mary sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8e/carrie-gress-22402_holy-spirit_the-moment-of-her-conception-mary-was-fr_1710207.jpg" --- > [“the moment of her conception, Mary was fruitful through the Holy Spirit while simultaneously acting as a mirror to humanity of what the Holy Spirit looks like. Mary makes concrete and material that which is only spiritual in the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/the-moment-of-her-conception-mary-was-fruitful-through-the-holy/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8e/carrie-gress-22402_holy-spirit_the-moment-of-her-conception-mary-was-fr_1710207.jpg) ## More by Carrie Gress > [“Motherhood, more than most other types of love, quickly acclimates us to what true love is: an act of the will, not simply a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/motherhood-more-than-most-other-types-of-love-quickly-acclimates-us/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“Pope Pius X said. “If we were to lose Mary,” the pope explained, “the world would wholly decay. Virtue would disappear, especially holy purity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/pope-pius-x-said-if-we-were-to-lose-mary-the-pope-explained-the-world/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“Explaining hell, Lúcia wrote, “Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/explaining-hell-l-cia-wrote-plunged-in-this-fire-were-demons-and/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline. “Civilizations,” Toynbee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/as-historian-arnold-toynbee-1889-1975-noted-civilizations-rarely-die/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“In one of Mary’s apparitions to Bernadette, Our Lady asked her to dig in the dirt. As she dug, a spring trickled through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/in-one-of-mary-s-apparitions-to-bernadette-our-lady-asked-her-to-dig/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“When the storms of temptation encompass you, look up to this star, invoke Mary. When the waves of pride are washing over your ship,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/when-the-storms-of-temptation-encompass-you-look-up-to-this-star/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“There are also new stories pouring out of Iraq as Islamic State–controlled territories are losing ground and Iraqis are reclaiming Christian territories. One miraculous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/there-are-also-new-stories-pouring-out-of-iraq-as-islamic-state/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“The story of Lourdes starts centuries before young Bernadette encountered the beautiful woman at Massabielle. While the area of Massabielle was known as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/the-story-of-lourdes-starts-centuries-before-young-bernadette/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“To eliminate her from Scripture is to deform the story—to not tell it correctly—and actually dishonors Jesus. Consider how much the common man honors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/to-eliminate-her-from-scripture-is-to-deform-the-story-to-not-tell-it/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“All grace,” says St. Maximilian Kolbe, “ultimately comes to us from God the Father, through the merits of Jesus Christ, His Son, and is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/all-grace-says-st-maximilian-kolbe-ultimately-comes-to-us-from-god/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“the height of European culture was centered on devotion to Our Lady. In the places where European culture soared, so too did devotion to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/the-height-of-european-culture-was-centered-on-devotion-to-our-lady/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“Salette, France (1846) The next apparition at La Salette happened four years later, in 1846. High up in the French Alps, Mary appeared to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/salette-france-1846-the-next-apparition-at-la-salette-happened-four/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“the moment of her conception, Mary was fruitful through the Holy Spirit while simultaneously acting as a mirror to humanity of what the Holy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/the-moment-of-her-conception-mary-was-fruitful-through-the-holy/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“Living the Marian Option does not require a change of address, career, or nationality; what it does require is going deep in one’s faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/living-the-marian-option-does-not-require-a-change-of-address-career/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) > [“We normally look to prayer to change the external realities of our life, but the Polish pope also knew the power of prayer could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/we-normally-look-to-prayer-to-change-the-external-realities-of-our/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-mary/carrie-gress/#itemlist", "name": "1 Like Mary Quotes By Carrie Gress", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“the moment of her conception, Mary was fruitful through the Holy Spirit while simultaneously acting as a mirror to humanity of what the Holy Spirit looks like. 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