Mary Magdalene quotes
The best-known lines of Mary Magdalene from Pistis Sophia, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Peter, each with the book and section it comes from, so you can read it in context.
- 1
“The Kingdom is inside you, and it is outside you. When you come to know yourselves, you will be known, and you will understand that you are the children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, you live in poverty, and you are that poverty.”
- 2
“Jesus said, ‘Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for everything is plain in the sight of Heaven. Nothing hidden will stay hidden, and nothing covered will remain uncovered.’”
- 3
“Jesus said, ‘Love your brother like your own soul, and guard him like the pupil of your eye.’”
- 4
“Jesus said, ‘No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him.’”
- 5
“Jesus said, ‘What you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim from your rooftops. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, or sets it in a hidden place. Rather, they put it on a lampstand so that everyone who comes and goes will see its light.’”
- 6
“Jesus said, ‘Blessed are the poor, for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven.’”
- 7
“Jesus said, ‘Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life.’”
- 8
“Jesus said, ‘If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.’”
- 9
“Jesus answered and said to Mary: ‘Speak openly and do not be afraid. I will reveal to you everything you seek.’”
- 10
“Jesus said, ‘If you have money, do not lend it at interest. Instead, give it to someone from whom you will not get it back.’”
- 11
“I cried out for help, but my voice could not pierce the darkness. I looked upward, hoping that the Light in which I had believed would come to my aid.”
- 12
“When I sought for light, I was given darkness. When I sought for my power, I was given matter.”
- 13
“Do not cast me away in the time of my old age; when my strength fails, do not forsake me.”
- 14
“My light has diminished within me, and I have cried out to the Light with all the light that remains in me, and I have stretched out my hands to you.”
- 15
“Remember not the sins of my youth nor those of my ignorance. Remember me rather according to the greatness of your mercy, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord.”
- 16
“Mary sprang up again and said: Yes, O Lord. This is what you once said to us: 'The last will become first and the first will become last.'”
- 17
“I was peaceful with those who hate peace. When I spoke with them, they fought me without cause.”
- 18
“Because I have believed in the Light, I will not fear; the Light is my Savior, and I will not fear.”
- 19
“When the First Mystery had finished saying these words to the disciples, Mary came forward and said: ‘My Lord, my mind is always ready to come forward and give the interpretation of the words she spoke, but I am afraid of Peter, for he threatens me and he hates our kind.’”
- 20
“When she said this, the First Mystery said to her: ‘No one can prevent anyone who is filled with the Spirit of light from coming forward to give the interpretation of what I say. So now, Mary, give the interpretation of the words that Pistis Sophia spoke.’”
- 21
“For this reason I said to you before: 'All you who are heavy-laden, come to me, and I will give you rest. For my burden is easy and my yoke is gentle.'”
- 22
“For this reason, when you questioned me before, saying: 'If our brother sins against us, do you wish that we forgive him up to seven times?' — I answered and spoke to you in a parable, saying: 'Not only up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.'”
- 23
“Jesus said, ‘I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind.’”
- 24
“Then Jesus, compassionate and tender-hearted, seeing that his disciples were in such distress, spoke to them and said: ‘Take courage. It is I. Do not be afraid.’”
- 25
“Jesus saw infants being nursed. He said to his disciples, ‘These nursing infants are like those who enter the Kingdom.’”
- 26
“Jesus said, There was a rich man who had much money. He said, 'I shall put my money to use so that I may sow, reap, plant, and fill my storehouse with produce, so that I shall lack nothing.' Such were his intentions, but that same night he died.”
- 27
“Jesus said, ‘The harvest is great but the laborers are few. Beseech the Lord, therefore, to send out laborers to the harvest.’”
- 28
“He said to them, ‘Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine.’”
- 29
“Jesus said, ‘Woe to the Pharisees, for they are like a dog sleeping in the manger of oxen — it neither eats itself nor lets the oxen eat.’”
- 30
“Jesus said, Do not worry from morning to night and from night to morning about what you will eat or what you will wear. You are worth far more than the lilies, which neither card nor spin.”
- 31
“He said, ‘When you strip off your clothes without being ashamed, and take your garments and lay them on the ground and tread on them as little children do — then you will see the child of the Living One, and you will not be afraid.’”
- 32
“But I looked up to you in the height, O Light, and I kept my faith in you.”
- 33
“I have suffered as I cried out. My throat is raw. My eyes have grown dim as I waited upon God.”
- 34
“Let not the floodwaters overwhelm me. Let not the abyss swallow me up; let not a pit close its mouth over me.”
- 35
“For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised those who are in chains.”
- 36
“But you, O Light, do not withhold your help from me. Look upon me and have mercy, for I am desolate and afflicted.”
- 37
“Arise and be compassionate to Zion, for the time for compassion has come; the appointed time is here.”
- 38
“Lead me in the way of your truth and teach me, for you are my God, my Savior. I will wait on you the whole day.”
- 39
“All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth for those who seek his righteousness and his witness.”
- 40
“I have been forgotten like a corpse in their hearts, and I have become like a broken vessel.”
- 41
“I will sing praise to you, O Light, even in the midst of all those gathered against me.”
- 42
“Now, O Light of Lights, do not let them take my light from me.”
- 43
“Let those who seek to take my light from me become powerless.”
- 44
“But I am like a fruit-bearing olive tree in the house of God; I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever and ever.”
- 45
“He put on cursing like a garment, and it entered his interior like water; it became like oil soaking into his bones.”
- 46
“I have been swept away like a fading shadow; I am blown about like locusts.”
- 47
“He sent his word and healed them, and freed them from their miseries.”
- 48
“But Mary Magdalene and John the virgin will tower above all my disciples and above all who receive the mysteries in the Ineffable. They will be at my right hand and at my left.”
- 49
“Tell them: Be loving toward others, so that you may be worthy of the mysteries of the Light and rise into the kingdom of Light.”
- 50
“Tell them: Minister to the poor, the sick, and the suffering, so that you may receive the mysteries of the Light and rise into the kingdom of Light.”
- 51
“I have brought the mysteries so that sins may be forgiven for everyone and all may be received into the kingdom of Light.”
- 52
“They were afraid that the Jews might see them, and they said to one another: Even if we could not weep and mourn for him on the day he was crucified, let us at least do so now, at his tomb.”
- 53
“I have become like fallen matter, cast back and forth like a demon drifting in the air.”
- 54
“This, then, is why I have not hesitated or been ashamed to call you my brothers and my companions, because you will be fellow kings with me in my kingdom.”
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