Quotes
from our Blessed Mother Mary, the Saints, Pope’s and several
scholars.
“Never
will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a
statement that I would gladly sign with my blood.”
~Saint Louis
de Montfort
“Continue
to pray the Rosary every day.”
~Our Lady of Fatima to Sister
Lucia
“You
shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.”
~Our
Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche
“Give
me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.”
~Pope
Blessed Pius IX
“If
you persevere in reciting the Rosary, this will be a most probable
sign of your eternal salvation.”
~Blessed Alan de la Roche
“The
greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.”
~Saint
Francis de Sales
“When
the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and
is more meritorious than any other prayer.”
~Saint Louis de
Montfort
“The
Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessing.”
~Blessed
Alan de la Roche
“One
day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, I will save the
world.”
~Our Lady to Saint Dominic
“If
you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in
spite of the gravity of your sins, ‘you will receive a never-fading
crown of glory’ (1 St. Peter 5:4).”
~Saint Louis de Montfort
“The
Rosary is THE weapon.”
~Padre Pio
“You
must know that when you ‘hail’ Mary, she immediately greets you!
Don’t think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are
so many—on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If
you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with
you!”
~Saint Bernardine of Siena
“Recite
your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with
perseverance.”
~Saint Louis de Montfort
“The
Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all
prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother
of God…and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the
family Rosary.”
~Pope Saint Pius X
“Never
will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or
be led astray by the devil.”
~Saint Louis de Montfort
“Even
if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in
hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do
who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate
as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your
life and will save your soul, if—and mark well what I say—if you
say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of
knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your
sins.”
~Saint Louis de Montfort
“The
Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new
efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there
is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or
above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our
families…that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem,
I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by
the prayer of the Holy Rosary.”
~Sister Lucia dos Santos, Fatima
seer
“When
you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights
in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you
can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is
nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.”
~Our
Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche
“‘Hail
Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!’ No creature has ever
said anything that was more pleasing to me, nor will anyone ever be
able to find or say to me anything that pleases me more.”
~Our
Lady to Saint Mechtilde
“We
never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and
we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly.
We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek – Jesus, her
Son.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“The
greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most
assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as
the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist
them.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“Mary
having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so
much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain
salvation except through her intercession.’
~St. Alphonsus Maria
de Liguori
“Men
do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the
name and protection of Mary.”
~St. Bonaventure
“To
give worthy praise to the Lord’s mercy, we unite ourselves with
Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to
You, because She is chosen from among men and angels. Through Her, as
through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her,
man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down
upon us.” (1746)
~Sr. Faustina
“Never
be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love
her more than Jesus did.”
~Saint Maximilian Kolbe
“Before,
by yourself, you couldn’t. Now, you’ve turned to our Lady, and
with her, how easy!”
~Josemaria Escriva
“In
dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary.
Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your
heart. And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect
not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go
astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as
she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds
your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to
fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows
you favor, you shall reach the goal.”
~Saint Bernard of
Clairvaux, Father and Doctor of the Church
“O
sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you
necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will
that she should help in every kind of necessity.”
~Saint Basil
the Great
“Mary,
give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart
so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in
the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the
distressing guise of the poor.”
~Mother Teresa
“If
you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at
once to your help, and Satan will leave you.”
~St. John Vianney
“When
we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if
dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we
should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she
is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us
to the light.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“The
Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She
seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that
will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan
and the spread of God’s kingdom.”
~St. Maximilian Kolbe
“If
you ever feel distressed during your day — call upon our Lady —
just say this simple prayer: ‘Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a
mother to me now.’ I must admit — this prayer has never failed
me.”
~Mother Teresa
“Love
our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in
your daily struggle.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“Have
confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you’ll be
faithful.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“So
your strength is failing you? Why don’t you tell your mother about
it? . . . Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to
you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she—your holy mother
Mary—offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her
arms, the tenderness of her embrace . . . and you will find yourself
with added strength for the new battle.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“All
the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don’t give
up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith
and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your
soul.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“May
I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your
heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate
Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don’t abandon me. Don’t
abandon me, my Mother! — And recommend this prayer to
others.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“When
you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge
which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going
down.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“Only
after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then,
she is much too busy with her children.”
~St. John Vianney
“To
serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live
under her commands is more than to govern.”
~St. John Vianney
“Let
us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her
arms with a perfect confidence.”
~Saint Francis de Sales
“After
the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in
our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.”
~St. Alphonsus Maria
de Liguori
“With
reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would
call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through
the means of Mary.”
~Saint Ildephonsus, Bishop
“No
one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the
Mother.”
~Saint Ildephonsus, Bishop
“Devotion
to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to
those whom he wishes to save.”
~Saint John Damascene
“There
is no one, O Most Holy Mary, who can know God except through thee; no
one who can be saved or redeemed but through thee, O Mother of God;
no one who can be delivered from dangers but through thee, O Virgin
Mother; no one who obtains mercy but through thee, O
Filled-With-All-Grace!”
~Saint Germanus of Constantinople,
Patriarch of Constantinople
“For
if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more
the spiritual? . . . If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a
man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.”
~Pope
Saint Gregory VII
“It
is impossible to save one’s soul without devotion to Mary and
without her protection.”
~Saint Anselm, Archbishop and Doctor of
the Church
“Not
only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also
offended by those who neglect to ask thy favors . . . He who neglects
the service of the Blessed Virgin will die in his sins . . . He who
does not invoke thee, O Lady, will never get to Heaven . . . Not only
will those from whom Mary turns her countenance not be saved, but
there will be no hope of their salvation . . . No one can be saved
without the protection of Mary.
~Saint Bonaventure,
Cardinal-Bishop and Doctor of the Church
“We
may seek graces, but shall never find them without the intercession
of Mary.”
~Saint Cajetan, Founder of the Theatines
“I
have great doubts about the salvation of those who do not have
special devotion to Mary.”
~Saint Francis Borgia
“It
seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ
said to His Mother: ‘Behold thy son’, provided that he has not
turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him:
‘Behold thy Mother.’”
~Saint Robert Bellarmine,
Cardinal-Bishop and Doctor of the Church
“A
man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus
Christ.”
~Saint John Eudes
“All
true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his
mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have
God for his father.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“Let
not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy
Mother!”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“For
God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son,
also gave her power over his adopted children – not only in what
concerns their body – which would be of little account – but also
in what concerns their soul.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“We
must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is
called “hypothetical”, (that is, because God so willed it), the
Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for men to attain their
final end. Consequently we must not place devotion to her on the same
level as devotion to the other saints as if it were merely something
optional.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“The
pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and
erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved
incontestably that devotion to our Blessed Lady is necessary to
attain salvation. This they show from the teaching of the Fathers,
notably St. Augustine, St. Ephrem, deacon of Edessa, St. Cyril of
Jerusalem, St. Germanus of Constantinople, St. John Damascene, St.
Anselm, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure.
Even according to Oecolampadius and other heretics, lack of esteem
and love for the Virgin Mary is an infallible sign of God’s
disapproval. On the other hand, to be entirely and genuinely devoted
to her is a sure sign of God’s approval.”
~Saint Louis Marie
de Montfort
“The
Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and through
Mary.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“If
devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to
work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are
called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can
acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy
Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an
absolute dependence on her support.”
~Saint Louis Marie de
Montfort
“From
day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold
plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable degree of
grace. So much so, that the Almighty made her the sole custodian of
his treasures and the sole dispenser of his graces. She can now
ennoble, exalt and enrich all she chooses. She can lead them along
the narrow path to heaven and guide them through the narrow gate to
life. She can give a royal throne, sceptre and crown to whom she
wishes. Jesus is always and everywhere the fruit and Son of Mary and
Mary is everywhere the genuine tree that bears that Fruit of life,
the true Mother who bears that Son.”
~Saint Louis Marie de
Montfort
“The
greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most
assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as
the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist
them.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“Woe
to those who despise devotion to Mary! . . . The soul cannot live
without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He
falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.”
~Saint
Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Doctor of the Church and Founder of the
Redemptorists
“The
honor of Mary is so intimately connected with the honor and glory of
Jesus that to deny the one is at the same time a denial of the
other.”
~Fr. William Joseph Chaminade
“To
desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to
fly without wings.”
~Pope Pius XII, 1876-1958 AD
“The
conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever.
The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over
Satan.”
~Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Martyr
“Jesus
honored her before all ages, and will honor her for all ages. No one
comes to Him, nor even near Him, no one is saved or sanctified, if he
too will not honor her. This is the lot of Angels and of men.”
~Saint
Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Martyr
“If
anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will
not have Christ for his Brother.”
~Saint Maximilian Kolbe,
Martyr, 1894-1941 AD
“Always
stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be
crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.”
~Padre Pio,
1887-1968 AD
“In
trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance
alone is enough to dissipate every fear.”
~Saint Therese of
Lisieux
“What
a joy to remember that she [Mary] is our Mother! Since she loves us
and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?”
~Saint Therese of
Lisieux
“The
clients of this most merciful Mother are very fortunate. She helps
them both in this life and in the next, consoling them and sponsoring
their cause in Purgatory. For the simple reason that the Souls in
Purgatory need help so desperately, since they cannot help
themselves, our Mother of Mercy does so much more to relieve them.
She exercises over these Poor Souls, who are the spouses of Christ,
particular dominion, with power to relieve them and even deliver them
from their pains. See how important it is then to have devotion to
this good Lady, because she never forgets her servants as long as
they suffer in these flames. If she helps all the Poor Souls, she is
especially indulgent and consoling to her own clients.”
~Saint
Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church, The Glories of Mary
“You
are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls
in Purgatory.”
~Saint Bridget to our Lady
“Mary
seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for
such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.”
~Saint
Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church
“Mary
has the authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven. As a
reward for her great humility, God gave her the power and mission of
assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels
who fell away through pride. Such is the will of the almighty God who
exalts the humble, that the powers of heaven, earth and hell,
willingly or unwillingly, must obey the commands of the humble Virgin
Mary. For God has made her queen of heaven and earth, leader of his
armies, keeper of his treasure, dispenser of his graces, mediatrix on
behalf of men, destroyer of his enemies, and faithful associate in
his great works and triumphs.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort,
True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin
“All
true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his
mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have
God for his father.”
~Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
“If
anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will
not have Christ for his Brother.”
~Saint Maximilian Kolbe
“Let
us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great
praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the
greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever
we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.”
~Saint
Bernard of Clairvaux, Father and Doctor of the Church
“No
matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it
is impossible that he be lost.”
~Saint Hilary of Poitiers –
Bishop, Father, and Doctor of the Church
“Seek
refuge in Mary because she is the city of refuge. We know that Moses
set up three cities of refuge for anyone who inadvertently killed his
neighbor. Now the Lord has established a refuge of mercy, Mary, even
for those who deliberately commit evil. Mary provides shelter and
strength for the sinner.”
~Saint Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the
Church
“If
anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a
one is a stranger to the Godhead.”
~Saint Gregory Nazianzen,
Father and Doctor of the Church
“Prayer
is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen
even of God’s heart.”
~Saint Maximilian Kolbe
“She
is more Mother than Queen.”
~Saint Therese of Lisieux
“In
that first ‘fusion’ with Jesus (holy communion), it was my
Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she
herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.”
~Saint Therese of
Lisieux
“In
trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance
alone is enough to dissipate every fear.”
~Saint Therese of
Lisieux
“Think
of what the Saints have done for their neighbor because they loved
God. But what Saint’s love for God can match Mary’s? She loved
Him more in the first moment of her existence than all the Saints and
angels ever loved Him or will love Him. Our Lady herself revealed to
Sister Mary Crucified that the fire of her love was most extreme. If
Heaven and earth were placed in it, they would be instantly consumed.
And the ardors of the seraphim, compared with it, are like cool
breezes. Just as there is not one among all the Blessed who loves God
as Mary does, so there is no one, after God, who loves us as much as
this most loving Mother does. Furthermore, if we heaped together all
the love that mothers have for their children, all the love of
husbands and wives, all the love of all the angels and Saints for
their clients, it could never equal Mary’s love for even a single
soul.”
~Saint Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary
“Do
not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to
God”
~Saint Jerome, Father and Doctor of the Church
“Even
while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with
motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered
so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her
children.”
~Saint Jerome, Father and Doctor of the Church
“The
world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the
hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive
him from her.”
~Saint Augustine, Father and Doctor of the Church
“As
mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians
are guided to heaven by Mary.”
~Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of
the Church
“Let
us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing
them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her
children.”
~Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Father and Doctor of the
Church
“That
one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in
body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior
himself—of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children
of the bridegroom—but plainly she is the mother of us who are his
members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who
are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body,
indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.”
~Saint Augustine,
Father and Doctor of the Church
“The
Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the
glad tidings that she would bear God.”
~Saint Irenaeus, Father
of the Church
“Let
us run to her, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her
arms with a perfect confidence.”
~Saint Francis de Sales, Doctor
of the Church
“The
day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy,
because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed,
and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into
joy.”
~Saint John Damascene, Father and Doctor of the Church
“There
is no danger of exaggerating. We never hope to fathom this
inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient
thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the
Blessed Trinity.”
~Josemaria Escriva
“May
the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit,
obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly
blessing.”
~Padre Pio
“Always
stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be
crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.”
~Padre Pio
“Let
us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly
Mother and reflect on it’s boundless grief and how precious is our
soul.”
~Padre Pio
“Let
the storm rage and the sky darken – not for that shall we be
dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in
her, the Virgin Most Powerful ‘who with virginal foot did crush the
head of the serpent’.”
~Pope Saint Pius X
“The
reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is
unknown.”
~Cardinal John Henry Newman
“I
am not only the Queen of Heaven, but also the Mother of Mercy.”
~Our
Lady to Sister Faustina
“Whosoever
shall die wearing my Scapular shall not suffer the flames of
Hell.”
~Our Lady of Mount Carmel
“Even
while living in this world, the heart of Mary was so filled with
tenderness and compassion for men, that no one ever suffered so much
for his own pains as Mary suffered for the pains of others.”
~St.
Jerome
“O
sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you
necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will
that she should help in every kind of necessity.”
~Saint Basil
the Great
“Happy,
indeed sublimely happy, is the person to whom the Holy Spirit reveals
the secret of Mary, thus imparting to him true knowledge of her.
Happy the person to whom the Holy Spirit opens this enclosed garden
for him to enter, and to whom the Holy Spirit gives access to this
sealed fountain where he can draw water and drink deep draughts of
the living waters of grace. That person will find only grace and no
creature in the most lovable Virgin Mary. But he will find that the
infinitely holy and exalted God is at the same time infinitely
solicitous for him and understands his weaknesses. Since God is
everywhere, he can be found everywhere, even in hell. But there is no
place where God can be more present to his creature and more
sympathetic to human weakness than in Mary. It was indeed for this
very purpose that he came down from heaven. Everywhere else he is the
Bread of the strong and the Bread of angels, but living in Mary he is
the Bread of children.”
~from The Secret of Mary, by Saint Louis
Marie de Montfort
