Quotes About The Virgin Birth

#1. The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

John Shelby Spong

#3. In a culture rife with power and position, where the home bespoke volumes, shame would not be the path of choice for anyone. Had the virgin birth not been true, to assert that truth would be the path of cultural ostracism, if not suicide for all of them.

Ravi Zacharias

#4. Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Lionel Blue

#5. The virgin birth of Christ is a key doctrine; for if Jesus Christ is not God come in sinless human flesh, then we have no Savior. Jesus had to be

Warren W. Wiersbe

#6. The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

Richard Dawkins

#7. 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

#8. I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely ... that the whole natural order is suspended or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?

Christopher Hitchens

#9. For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Bernard Katz

#10. For some reason, many religions force themselves to think of the birth canal as a one-way street, and even the Koran treats the Virgin Mary with reverence.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

Osamu Dazai

#12. Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Charles Lamb

#13. Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

St. Jerome

#14. I was taught never to make a threat unless you are prepared to carry it out, and I am not a fan of carrying anything. Even watching other people carrying things makes me uncomfortable. Mainly because of the possibility they may ask me to help.

David Thorne

#15. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?

Karlheinz Deschner

#16. The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.

Anthony Of Padua

#17. Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.

Victoria E. Bynum

#18. I don't need a paper certificate that makes it hard to leave; I need a love that makes it easy to stay.

Jewel E. Ann

#19. I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

Ronnie James Dio

#20. The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Bette Midler

#21. Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

Charlotte Mew

#22. the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name Him Immanuel,

Anonymous

#23. There is no great genius without tincture of madness.

Seneca.

#24. And it is likely that Rudy had teammates for whom the inverse was true - they were a 5 on talent and just a 2 on time invested, which is clearly a waste of talent.

Tom Rath

#25. In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

Henry Adams

#26. Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna
to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Christina Stead

#27. It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.

Fulton J. Sheen

#28. I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

David Edward Jenkins