True Devotion to Mary Quotes

“God the Father has communicated to Mary His fruitfulness, as far as a mere creature was capable of it, in order that He might give her the power to produce His Son, and all the members of His mystical body.”
― de Montfort, Saint Louis, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“When Mary has struck her roots in a soul, she produces there marvels of grace, which she alone can produce, because she alone is the fruitful Virgin who never has had, and never will have, her equal in purity and in fruitfulness.”
― Louis De Montfort, True Devotion to Mary

“In order to rid ourselves of self, we must die ourselves daily. That is to say, we must renounce the operations of the powers of our soul and the senses of our body. We must see as if we saw not, understand as if we understood not, and make use of the things of this world as if we made no use of them at all (1 Cor. 7:29-31). This is what St. Paul calls dying daily (1 Cor. 15:31). "Unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone," and bringeth forth no good fruit (Jn. 12:24-25).”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“Mary has produced, together with the Holy Ghost, the greatest thing which has been or ever will be—a God-Man; and she will consequently produce the greatest saints that there will be in the end of time.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“She is not the sun, which by the brightness of its rays blinds us because of our weakness; but she is fair and gentle as the moon (Cant. 6:9), which receives the light of the sun, and tempers it to make it more suitable to our capacity.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“If, then, we establish solid devotion to our Blessed Lady, it is only to establish more perfectly devotion to Jesus Christ, and to provide an easy and secure means for finding Jesus Christ. If devotion to Our Lady removed us from Jesus Christ, we should have to reject it as an illusion of the devil; but so far from this being the case, devotion to Our Lady is, on the contrary, necessary for us—as I have already shown, and will show still further hereafter—as a means of finding Jesus Christ perfectly, of loving Him tenderly, of serving Him faithfully.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“Satan, being proud, suffers infinitely more from being beaten and punished by a little and humble handmaid of God, and her humility humbles him more than the Divine power; and, secondly, because God has given Mary such a great power against the devils, that, as they have often been obliged to confess, in spite of themselves, by the mouths of the possessed, they fear one of her sighs for a soul more than the prayers of all the Saints, and one of her menaces against them more than all other torments.”
― St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“It is an easy way. It is the way which Jesus Christ Himself trod in coming to us, and in which there is no obstacle in reaching Him. It is true that we can attain divine union by other roads; but it is by many more crosses and strange deaths, and with many more difficulties, which we shall find it hard to overcome. We must pass through obscure nights, through combats, through strange agonies, over craggy mountains, through cruel thorns and over frightful deserts. But by the path of Mary we pass more gently and more tranquilly.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“Make your dwelling and residence in My predestinated children, figured by Jacob, and not in the reprobate children of the devil, figured by Esau.”
― St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“God the Son wishes to form Himself, and, so to speak, to incarnate Himself, every day by His dear Mother in His members, and He has said to her, In Israel hæreditare,—“Take Israel for your inheritance.” It is as if He had said, God the Father has given Me for an inheritance all the nations of the earth, all the men good and bad, predestinate and reprobate. The one I will lead with a rod of gold, and the others with a rod of iron. Of one I will be the Father and the Advocate, the Just Punisher of others, and the Judge of all. But as for you, My dear Mother,—you shall have for your heritage and possession only the predestinate, figured by Israel; and, as their good Mother, you shall bring them forth and maintain them; and, as their sovereign, you shall conduct them, govern and defend them.”
― St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“There have been some saints, but they have been in small numbers, who have walked upon this sweet path to go to Jesus, because the Holy Ghost, faithful Spouse of Mary, by a singular grace disclosed it to them. Such were St. Ephrem, St. John Damascene, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis de Sales, and others. But the rest of the saints, who are the greater number, although hall all had devotion to our Blessed Lady, nevertheless have either not at all, or at least very little, entered upon this way. That is why they have had to pass through ruder and more dangerous trials.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“God has never made or formed but one enmity; but it is an irreconcilable one, which shall endure and develop even to the end. It is between Mary, His worthy Mother, and the devil,—between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and instruments of Lucifer. The most terrible of all the enemies which God has set up against the devil is His holy Mother, Mary. He has inspired her, even since the days of the earthly Paradise, though she existed then only in His idea, with so much hatred against that cursed enemy of God, with so much industry in unveiling the malice of that old serpent, with so much power to conquer, to overthrow, and to crush that proud impious rebel, that he fears her not only more than all Angels and men, but in some sense more than God Himself. It is not that the anger, the hatred, and the power of God are not infinitely greater than those of the Blessed Virgin, for the perfections of Mary are limited, but it is, first, because Satan, being proud, suffers infinitely more from being beaten and punished by a little and humble handmaid of God, and her humility humbles him more than the Divine power; and, secondly, because God has given Mary such a great power against the devils, that, as they have often been obliged to confess, in spite of themselves, by the mouths of the possessed, they fear one of her sighs for a soul more than the prayers of all the Saints, and one of her menaces against them more than all other torments.”
― St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“not that man presume to look for the mercy of God who offends His holy Mother.”
― Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“God the Father made an assemblage of all the waters and He named it the sea (mare). He made an assemblage of all His graces and he called it Mary (Maria). This great God has a most rich treasury in which He has laid up all that He has of beauty and splendour, or rarity and preciousness, including even His own Son: and this immense treasury is none other than Mary, whom the saints have named the Treasure of the Lord, out of whose plenitude all men are made rich.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“humillarla y ocultarla durante su vida, para fomentar su humildad,”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“El gran consejo que San Bernardo daba a aquellos que dirigía a la perfección era éste: “Si quieres ofrecer algo a Dios, procura presentarlo por las manos agradabilísimas y dignísimas de María, si no quieres ser rechazado”[107] .”
― Luis María Grignion de Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“Depositum custodi,—“My good Mother and Mistress, I acknowledge that up to this time I have, by your intercession, received more grace from God than I deserve; and my sad experience teaches me that I carry this treasure in a very frail vessel, and that I am too weak and too miserable to keep it safely of myself. I beseech you, therefore, receive in trust all which I possess, and keep it for me by your fidelity and power. If you keep it for me, I shall lose nothing; if you hold me up, I shall not fall; if you protect me, I shall be sheltered from my enemies.”
― St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“Ser devoto tuyo, ¡oh María! -dice San Juan Damasceno-, es un arma de salvación que Dios ofrece a los que quiere salvar”
― Luis María Grignion de Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“Todos los verdaderos hijos de Dios y predestinados tienen a Dios por Padre y a María por Madre. Y quien no tenga a María por Madre, tampoco tiene a Dios por Padre (ver Rom 8,25-30)[24] .”
― Luis María Grignion de Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“True devotion to our Lady is holy; that is to say, it leads the soul to avoid sin, and to imitate in the Blessed Virgin particularly her profound humility, her lively faith, her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her divine purity, her ardent”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“María, estrella del mar, conduce a todos sus fieles servidores al puerto de salvación. Les enseña los caminos de la vida eterna. Les hace evitar los pasos peligrosos. Los lleva de la mano por los senderos de la justicia. Los sostiene cuando están a punto de caer. Los levanta cuando han caído. Los reprende, como Madre cariñosa, cuando yerran, y aun a veces los castiga amorosamente.”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“María es la Virgen fiel, que por su fidelidad a Dios repara las pérdidas que la Eva infiel causó por su infidelidad, y alcanza a quienes confían en Ella la fidelidad para con Dios y la perseverancia.”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“San Buenaventura parece decir lo mismo en términos más explícitos. “La Santísima Virgen no solamente se mantiene en la plenitud de los santos; Ella mantiene y conserva a los santos en su plenitud, para que ésta no disminuya; impide que sus virtudes se debiliten, que sus méritos se esfumen, que sus gracias se pierdan, que los demonios les hagan daño, que el Señor los castigue cuando pecan”.”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“San Bernardo dice en términos formales lo mismo para inspirarnos esta práctica: “Si Ella te sostiene, no caes; si Ella te protege, no temes; si Ella te guía, no te fatigas; si Ella te es favorable, llegas hasta el puerto de salvación”.”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“God the Holy Ghost, being barren in God—that is to say, not producing another Divine Person—is become fruitful by Mary, whom He has espoused. It was with her, in her, and of her that He produced His Masterpiece, which is God made Man, and that He goes on producing daily, to the end of the world, the predestinate and the members of the Body of that adorable Head. This is the reason why He, the Holy Ghost, the more He finds Mary, His dear and inseparable spouse in any soul, the more active and mighty He becomes in producing Jesus Christ in that soul, and that soul in Jesus Christ.”
― Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for Total Consecration

“¡Hacerte y llamarte esclavo de Jesucristo es hacerte y proclamarte esclavo de la Santísima Virgen! Porque Jesucristo es el fruto y gloria de María.”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“La Iglesia, con el Espíritu Santo, bendice primero a la Santísima Virgen y después a Jesucristo: Bendita tú entre las mujeres y bendito el fruto de tu vientre, Jesús. Y esto no porque la Virgen María sea mayor que Jesucristo o igual a El -lo cual sería intolerable herejía-, sino porque para bendecir más perfectamente a Jesucristo hay que bendecir primero a María[”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“San Miguel –llega a decir San Agustín–, aún siendo el príncipe de toda la milicia celestial, es el más celoso en rendirle y hacer que otros le rindan toda clase de honores, esperando siempre sus órdenes para volar en socorro de alguno de sus servidores”.”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“María es el santuario y tabernáculo de la Santísima Trinidad, donde Dios mora más magnífica y maravillosamente que en ningún otro lugar del universo,”
― Luis Maria Grignion De Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen

“2o te entregues al espíritu de María para ser movilizado y conducido por él de la manera que Ella quiera. Debes abandonarte en sus manos virginales, como la herramienta en manos del obrero, como el laúd en manos de un tañedor. Tienes que perderte y abandonarte a Ella como una piedra que se arroja al mar; lo cual se hace sencillamente y en un momento con una simple mirada del espíritu, un ligero movimiento de la voluntad o pocas palabras, diciendo, por ejemplo: “¡Renuncio a mí mismo y me consagro a ti, querida Madre mía!” Y, aun cuando no sientas ninguna dulzura sensible en este acto de unión, no por ello deja de ser verdadero;”
― Luis María Grignion de Montfort, Tratado de la Verdadera Devoción a la Santísima Virgen