Christian living Quote by Jessica Coupe

“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

“I'm praying for you, Mary. I want you to live forever.”

— Truman Capote

“As she prayed, she thought of Mary, holding her infant son in her lap, nurturing and sustaining him through his childhood, and then watching…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“We ask Mary that, as the first disciple, she teach us to remain watching, that she accompany us in patience, strengthen us in hope;…

— Pope Francis

“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some…

— Ralph Ellison

“Mary's smile is a spotlight—whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Mary, woman of listening, open our ears; grant us to know how to listen to the word of your Son Jesus among the thousands…

— The Word Among Us Press

“My grace is sufficient for thee. The words soothed her soul like a healing balm.”

— J.E.B. Spredemann

“And even if only one good memory remains with us in our hearts, that alone may serve some day for our salvation.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It’s a long time ago that I lost my faith in Mary, a long time since she was the fulcrum of the scheme of…

— Marina Warner

“Memory is merciful, Joanna, more so than man. It fades past pain, yet holds bright the colors in recalled joy.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the”

— John Henry Newman