Let us read and meditate on beautiful and profound phrases and thoughts from the saints about Our Lady, devotion and Marian prayers.
Santa Jacinta Marto
“Tell everyone: God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; ask her! The Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be venerated at its side.”
Santa Rosa de Lima
“The Holy Rosary contains all the merit of vocal prayer and all the virtue of mental prayer.”
Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi
“And it seemed to me that the platform of this temple was the high mind and high understanding of the Virgin Mary. There was also an altar, and I realized that it was the Virgin’s will. And the cloth on the same altar was her purest virginity. And the ciborium where Jesus is found is the Heart of the Virgin. And before the altar I saw seven lamps that I understood to be the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit that were equally and perfectly found in the Virgin Mary. And on the altar there were twelve beautiful candelabras that I realized were the Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit that the Virgin possessed”.
Saint Teresa of Jesus (Saint Teresa of Ávila)
“I would gladly stay on earth until the end of the world, suffering the worst torments, just to earn a Hail Mary.”
“In the Holy Rosary, I found the sweetest, softest, most effective and most powerful attractions to unite me with God.”
Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (Saint Therese)
“Do not be afraid to love the Blessed Virgin Mary too much, because you will never be able to love her enough and Jesus will be very happy, because the Blessed Virgin is his Mother.”
Saint Alphonsus Maria de Ligório
“Most gracious Lady, most sublime Lady, most gracious Lady, turn your gaze to a poor sinner who recommends himself to you and puts his trust in you.”
“The Holy Rosary is the most pleasant tribute to the Mother of God.”
“If at the hour of death we have Mary on our side, what can we fear?”
“It is impossible to condemn a devotee of Mary Most Holy who faithfully obliges her and recommends himself to her.”
Saint Augustine
“The fact of being the Mother of Christ gives Mary a unique place in the mystery of redemption, since it is through her that the Savior came into the world. This cooperation in the work of Salvation makes Mary, spiritually, the Mother of all men.”
“The prayers of the Most Holy Mary before God have more power with the Divine Majesty than the prayers and intercession of all the angels and Saints of Heaven and Earth.”
“Mary’s admirable holiness is the fruit of the grace of God who fulfilled her, in view of her mission. The Virgin Mary represents the most worthy, pure and innocent thing that this earth of ours could offer to God, so that the Son of God would deign to come down to it.”
“Everything we can say in praise of Mary Most Holy is little compared to what she deserves for her dignity as Mother of God.”
Saint Albert the Great
“There is no surer way to overcome the attacks of hell than to turn to the Holy Mary.”
“The Hail Mary is the door to Paradise.”
Saint Ambrose
“She alone is rightly called full of grace, because she alone has achieved the grace that no other will deserve, that of being full of the Author of grace.”
Santo André Corsino
“The smallest prayer to the Mother of God does not go unanswered.”
Saint Anselm
“God, who created all things, made himself through the Most Holy Mary.”
“Nothing equal to Mary, nothing greater than Mary, but only God.”
Saint Antonine
“If Mary is for us, who can be against us?”
“All devotees of the Holy Mary are necessarily saved.”
Saint Anthony Mary Claret
“Blessed is he who invokes the Most Holy Mary, whoever resorts to the Immaculate Heart of Mary with confidence, because he will achieve forgiveness of sins, grace and, finally, the glory of Heaven.”
Saint Hilary
“The greatest joy we can give to the Most Holy Mary is to carry Jesus in the Eucharist in our breast.”
Saint Ildefonso
“Everything offered to the Most Holy Mother redounds in honor of the Son.”
Saint Irenaeus
“The knot of Eve’s disobedience was undone by Mary’s obedience.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
“I would give all my theological science for the value of a single Hail Mary.”
“The Lord Father is with Mary, for He is in no way separated from His Son and Mary possesses this Son, like no other creature, even angelic.”
“The Blessed Virgin is the model and example of all virtues. In her you will find the model of humility.”
“The Virgin Mary surpasses the Angels in her intimacy with the Lord.”
“The Blessed Virgin Mary enjoys a greater intimacy with God than the angelic creature.”
Saint Bernardine of Siena
“God granted the Blessed Virgin so much grace that it is impossible to grant to any creature except Jesus Christ.”
“She distributes to whoever she wants, how she wants, when she wants and how much she wants, the graces of the Eternal Father, the virtues of Jesus Christ and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.”
St Bernard
“In dangers, in anguish, in doubts, think of Mary, invoke Mary.”
“For you, O Mary, Heaven was filled and hell was depopulated.”
“The pious invocation of the Virgin Mary is a sign of salvation.”
“The Hail Mary is a loving kiss that we give to our Mother in Heaven. She returns the kisses. As many times as we greet her, as many times as she will return our greetings. If we give her a thousand greetings, she will respond a thousand times.”
Saint Bonaventure
“All those who strive to spread the glories of the Blessed Virgin have Heaven assured.”
“I have never read that any Saint had not been a special devotee of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
“Mary is God’s masterpiece who exhausted his wisdom, his power and his riches in her.”
“God deposited the fullness of all good in the Most Holy Mary, so that in this we might know that everything we have in terms of hope, grace and salvation comes to us from her.”
Saint Philip of Nery
“If you want to persevere, be devoted to Mary Most Holy.”
Saint Francis de Sales
“No one will have Jesus Christ for a brother who does not have the Holy Mary for his Mother.”
“There is no devotion to God without love for the Blessed Virgin.”
“In devotion to our Lord arises that of his Mother. No one can love one without loving the other.”
“The Holy Rosary is the best devotion of the Christian people.”
“The Blessed Virgin has always been the Star of the Sea and the favorable Harbor of all men who have sailed the seas of this miserable world… Those who steer their boat guided by this divine Star save themselves from capsizing against the obstacles of sin .”
Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin
“If we possess Holy Mary, we have everything with her.”
Saint John Berchmans
“I will not be sure of my salvation until I am sure of my devotion to the Virgin Mary.”
“He who has love for the Holy Mary will have perseverance.”
Saint John Bosco (Don Bosco)
“All my works and works are based on two things: the Holy Mass and the Holy Rosary.”
“Whoever trusts in the Holy Mary will never be deceived.”
“Love your tender Heavenly Mother, turn to her with your heart.”
“Love, honor and serve the Most Holy Mary”.
“A great support for you, a powerful weapon against the snares of the devil, you have in devotion to the Most Holy Mary.”
“Mary protects all her devotees, in all their needs, but she protects them especially at the time of death”.
“Constantly recommend devotion to Our Lady Help of Christians and to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”
“Be devoted to Mary Most Holy and you will certainly be happy.”
“It has never been heard in the world that anyone has confidently turned to this Celestial Mother and has not been promptly helped.”
“Before God I declare: it is enough for a young man to enter a Salesian house for the Blessed Virgin to immediately take him under her special protection.”
“Never let a Saturday pass without offering a gift to the Most Holy Mary.”
Saint John Damascene
“God only grants the grace of devotion to the Holy Mary to those he wants to save.”
Saint John of Ávila
“One of the main remedies against the devil is to turn to the Virgin Mary.”
Saint John Mary Vianney (Cura d’Ars)
“The Three Divine Persons contemplate the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is without blemish, she is adorned with all the virtues that make her so beautiful and pleasing to the Holy Trinity.”
“God could have created a more beautiful world than the one that exists, but he could not have given existence to a creature more perfect than the Holy Mary.”
“The Father delights in looking at the Heart of the Blessed Virgin as the masterpiece of his hands.”
“If a very rich father or mother had many children and they all died, leaving only one left, that person would inherit all the assets. Through original sin, all of Adam’s children died to grace, and only the Most Holy Mary, exempt from sin, inherited the graces of innocence and favors that would have belonged to Adam’s children, if they had remained in a state of innocence. God made Mary Most Holy the repository of his graces.”
“Mary Most Holy wants us to be happy!”
“Saint Bernard says that he converted more souls through the Hail Mary than through all his sermons.”
“The Hail Mary is a prayer that never tires.”
“The safest way to know God’s will is to pray to our good Mother, Mary.”
“If hell could repent, Holy Mary would achieve this grace.”
“I have drunk so much from this fountain, in the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that it would have dried up a long time ago if it were not inexhaustible.”
“When our hands touch an aromatic substance, they perfume everything they touch. Let us pass our prayers through the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She will perfume them.”
“The heart of this good Mother is only love and mercy. She just wants to see you happy. All you need to do is turn to Her to be heard.”
Saint Louis Maria Grignion de Monfort
“God gathered together all the waters and called it the sea; he gathered all the graces together and named her Mary.”
“When the Holy Spirit finds the Most Holy Mary in a soul, he feels irresistibly attracted to her and makes his home in her.”
“The Holy Mary has not yet been sufficiently praised, exalted, honored, loved and served, as she deserves much more praise, respect, love and service.”
“Mary is the Sanctuary, the rest of the Holy Trinity, in which God is more magnificently and divinely than anywhere else in the universe, not excepting his Throne over the seraphim and cherubim.”
“The greatness and excellence of Mary Most Holy, the miracle of miracles of grace, nature and glory.”
“Where Mary is, the evil spirit does not enter; and one of the most infallible signs that one is being led by the good spirit is the circumstance of being very devoted to Mary, of thinking about her often and speaking to her frequently.”
“The Angelic Salutation summarizes in the most concise synthesis all Christian theology about the Blessed Virgin. There is a praise and an invocation in it: it contains the praise of Mary’s true greatness; the invocation contains everything we should ask of it and what goodness we can achieve from it.”
“The devotion of the daily Holy Rosary…