Quotes About Martha And Mary

#1. A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.

Dwight L. Moody

#2. Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#3. But, I will scream at the page: "There is so much more to Mary and Martha!

Mary Stromer Hanson

#4. For me, light is the signal in the transaction. It's not being in the light, it's being there before it arrives. #bestallnighterever

Toni Morrison

#5. If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#6. If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

#7. Do you know what I've learned, after three decades of death?" Gamache asked, leaning toward the agent and lowering his voice. Despite himself, the agent leaned forward. "I've learned how precious life is.

Louise Penny

#8. For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching myself is opening my mind too. I just want to get better and I think there's nothing wrong with wanting to get better.

Eric Hernandez

#9. Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing...

Josephin Peladan

#10. Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Kara Swisher

#11. I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

Orson Pratt

#12. We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

Wayne Pacelle

#13. All religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.

Mary Martha Sherwood

#14. A dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

Mary Martha Sherwood

#15. Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha.

Aldous Huxley

#16. Oh, child,' the Father exclaimed, 'whether it's St Martha or that Mary that made the bitter choice, not one of them ever looked more virtuous than you. Why aren't ye born to be a good man's help-meet?

Ford Madox Ford

#17. By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

E. E. Cummings

#18. Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state ...

Mary Martha Sherwood

#19. It is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

Mary Martha Sherwood

#20. Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid or follow the contours.

Nilesh Rathod

#21. We follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

C.S. Lewis