“I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary.”
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches
“I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary.”
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches
“There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.”
Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960) Welsh politician
Oft repeated: see John Campbell "Nye Bevan" (Richard Cohen Books, 1997)
1950s
Joan Baez (1941) American singer
"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part One"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
Letter to a Roman Catholic, July 18, 1749, The works of the Rev. John Wesley (1872), London, Wesleyan Conference Office, vol. X, p. 81. https://books.google.com/books?id=TZBKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=%22continued+a+pure+and+unspotted+virgin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn7srt5I_NAhUUU1IKHUlzC-AQ6AEIUTAH#v=onepage&q=%22continued%20a%20pure%20and%20unspotted%20virgin%22&f=false <br class="br">General sources
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“God bless pop music and God bless MTV.”
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
MTV Video Music Awards 2010.
José Saramago book Baltasar and Blimunda
Abençoem-se antes um ao outro, é quanto basta, pudessem ser todas as bênçãos como essa.
Source: Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), p. 175
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther as quoted in Tappert, Theodore G. (1959). The Book of Concord: the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, p. 595
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
Verse "Intended to allay the Violence of Party-Spirit"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)