Blessed virgin mary Quote by Hans Urs von Balthasar

“Mary tells herself that if only she could have a child she could carry around like an extra lung, the emptiness inside her would…

— Mary Szybist

“Instead she squeezes Mary’s arm and appreciates her kindness. Her understanding. This is why people have children, even when they believe the world is…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Mary considers how the womb stirs and years for its children, even after they have grown and gone off to other lives. The womb…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the…

— John Lanchester

“Long, long ago; her thought was of that child By him begot, the son by whom the sire Was murdered and the mother left…

— Sophocles

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early…

— George Eliot

“Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him, but never…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot…

— Emma Donoghue

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

“But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary. When”

— James Martin