Immaculate Mary

On this feast day, here are some lovely quotes on Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Mary is the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of all of us even though it was Christ alone who reposed on her knees . . . If he is ours, we ought to be in his situation; there where he is, we ought also to be and all that he has ought to be ours, and his mother is also our mother. ~Martin Luther, 1529

We never give more honor to Jesus than when we honor his Mother, and we honor her simply and solely to honor him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek--Jesus, her son. ~St. Louis Marie de Montfort

All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady. ~J.R.R. Tolkein