Quotes About Immaculate Conception

#1. Immaculate Conception, that if the Virgin would permit him to

Mark Twain

#2. Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

Milan Kundera

#3. I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament ... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Dorothy Parker

#4. The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

Jose Saramago

#5. I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

Kate Braverman

#6. I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

John Dewey

#7. Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.

Karin Slaughter

#8. It's so crude' complained her mother, who believed in Good Taste the way Sunday worshipers believed in the Immaculate Conception. She wasn't quite sure what it was but she was sure it was important.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. During the sermon, the priest discussed the miracle of Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth. "Virgin, my ass!" Dad shouted. "Mary was a sweet Jewish broad who got herself knocked up!

Jeannette Walls

#10. He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception

Christa Wolf

#11. There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

Aneurin Bevan

#12. Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

Julie Bowen

#13. Spontaneous abortion: the opposite of immaculate conception. God has compensated for Christianity's violent history by revealing that innocent blood does not have to be spilt.

Bauvard

#14. Yes, it's true. Immaculate conception exists. I am the second coming of Christ. I have no father.

Nathan Wrann

#15. Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy - individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don't now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.

Peace Pilgrim

#17. In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

John Ortberg

#18. What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?

Catherynne M Valente

#19. Holy Mother we do believe,
That without sin Thou didst conceive;
May we now in Thee believing,
Also sin without conceiving.

A.P. Herbert

#20. Petty human squabbles over borders and oil and creed vanish in the knowledge that this living marble surrounded by infinite emptiness is our shared home, and more, a home we share with, and owe to, the most wonderful inventions of life.

Nick Lane

#21. Since the Fall, our instincts have been to withdraw from relationship when we're in trouble, when we most need other people. (Remember

Henry Cloud

#22. I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

Leslye Walton

#23. Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.

Avishai Margalit