As mariners are guided into port
by the shining of a star,
so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

 
St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th century

Mary, Mother of God,
because of you the Holy Gospels could say:
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

 
St. Cyril of Alexandria, 5th century

The Virgin received Salvation
so that she may give it back to the centuries.

 
St. Peter Chrysologus, 5th century

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.

 
St. Augustine, 5th century

It is Mary, coming to bring the Lord to us.
'You are the glory of Jerusalem, the joy of Israel,
the honor of our people.'

 
Lauds; Feast of the Immaculate Conception

The soul of no saint
has gathered together such riches of virtue
as has the Holy Virgin Mary.

 
St. Anthony of Padua, 12th century

Mary loved Christ more in the first moment of her existence
than all the Saints and angels ever loved Him
or will love Him.

 
St. Alphonsus Liguori, 18th century

How transcendent is the loveliness
and the gentleness of the Mother of God.

 
Ven. John Henry Newman, 19th century