Mary Magdalene Quotes

• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

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  Fiona Shaw

  Mother   Order   Singing  

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  3908

• I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.

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  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian   Jesus   Years  

  800

• The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

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  Shirley Williams

  Women   Catholic   Church  

  3788

• If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!

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  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Penance   Sin   Mary  

  1087

• Jesus. Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Delilah, Jezebel, Salome, Judith, Eve. Trouble, every last one. Add Minerva Highwood to the list.

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  Tessa Dare

  Jesus   Add   Jezebel  

  3825

• Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared.

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  Anna Akhmatova

  Mother   Stones   Beloved  

  "Crucifixion". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1940-1943.

  3125

• I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

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  Madonna Ciccone

  Christian   Religious   Jesus  

  4937

• A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’

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  Pope Pius XII

  Christian   Believe   Taken  

  1450

• All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed drinking - it is impossible to think of a person who enjoys drinking and not laughing. He enjoyed women - it is difficult to think of a man who enjoys women and not laughing. He was friendly, almost in love, with a prostitute, Mary Magdalene. It is difficult to move with a prostitute - he was not moving with a Catholic monk, not with a priest, not with the Pope... with a prostitute! These were the condemnations against him.

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  Rajneesh

  Jesus   Real   Drinking  

  2033