{"quotes":[{"text":"And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.","author":"Peter J. Tanous","tags":["church","conspiracy","mystery","suspense","thriller","vatican","virgin-mary"],"id":32410,"author_id":"Peter+J.+Tanous"},{"text":"There is a reason Mary is everywhere. I've seen her image all over the world, in cafés in Istanbul, on students' backpacks in Scotland, in a market stall in Jakarta, but I don't think her image is everywhere because she is a reminder to be obedient, and I don't think it has to do with social revolution. Images of  Mary remind us of  God's favor. Mary is what it looks like to believe that we already are who God says we are.","author":"Nadia Bolz-Weber","tags":["belief","virgin-mary"],"id":67004,"author_id":"Nadia+Bolz-Weber"},{"text":"Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["love","need","virgin-mary"],"id":67499,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd, crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces of the New Jerusalem, and in their places gave to man a wilderness of worlds.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["absurd","ascension","bible","bible-vs-science","chaos","firmament","heaven","jerusalem","jesus","lord","mary","new-jerusalem","new-testament","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","telescope","the-bible","virgin-mary"],"id":69447,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki-habyarimana","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","christian-faith","christian-living","christian","christian-theology","christianity","christianity-faith","devil-worship","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","mother-of-god","pagan","pagan-book","pagan-goddess","pagan-gods","pagan-idols","pagan-whispers","paganism","paganism","pagans","quadrinity","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","satan","satan-worship","satanism","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","trinity","virgin-birth","virgin-mary"],"id":79989,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.","author":"Margot McCuaig","tags":["fiction","glasgow-humour","the-birds-that-never-flew","virgin-mary","women"],"id":82192,"author_id":"Margot+McCuaig"},{"text":"Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady: Red for the five Wounds of her Son.","author":"Adelaide Crapsey","tags":["jesus-christ","religious","virgin-mary"],"id":126589,"author_id":"Adelaide+Crapsey"},{"text":"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 on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.","author":"Hans Urs von Balthasar","tags":["blessed-virgin-mary","catholicism","christ","christianity","eternal-child","god","god-the-father","grace","incarnation","jesus","jesus-christ","mary","virgin-mary"],"id":130258,"author_id":"Hans+Urs+von+Balthasar"},{"text":"We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.","author":"Kelli Russell Agodon","tags":["art","creativity","fear","fearless","heart","love","mary","virgin-mary","vulnerability"],"id":139336,"author_id":"Kelli+Russell+Agodon"},{"text":"Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.","author":"Willa Cather","tags":["compassion","pity","virgin-mary","woman"],"id":141752,"author_id":"Willa+Cather"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}