The Blessed Virgin Mary Intercedes For Her Children On Earth

The White Ladder to Heaven: The Blessed Virgin Mary 
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Once, in a dream, Friar Leo beheld a vision of the making ready of the Divine judgment. He beheld the Angels making music with trumpets and divers instruments, and calling together a marvellous great crowd in a meadow. And on one side of the meadow was set a ladder all rosy red, which reached from earth even unto heaven, and on the other side of the meadow was set another ladder all white, which descended from heaven to earth. On the top of the red ladder, Christ appeared a Lord offended and exceeding wrath. And St. Francis was nigh unto Christ but a few steps lower down; and he came farther down the ladder, and with a loud voice and great fervour called and said: “Come ye, my friars, come confidently, fear not, come, draw nigh unto the Lord, for He calleth you”. At the voice of St. Francis and at his bidding, the friars went and climbed up the red ladder with great confidence. And, when they were all thereon, some fell off the third step, and some off the fourth step, others off the fifth and the sixth; and at the last all fell, so that there remained not one upon the ladder. And so great ruin of his friars, St. Francis, as a pitiful father, was moved to compassion, and besought the Judge for his sons, that He would receive them to His mercy. And Christ showed His wounds all bloody, and said unto St. Francis: “This have thy friars done unto Me”.
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And St. Francis delayed not, but, even as he interceded, came down certain steps, and cried unto the friars that were fallen from the red ladder and said: “Come ye, rise up, my sons and friars, be of good courage and despair not, but run to the white ladder and climb up it, for by it ye shall be received into the Kingdom of Heaven; run, friars, through paternal admonishment, to the white ladder”. And on the top of the ladder appeared the glorious Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, all pitiful and kind, and welcomed those friars; and without any difficulty they entered into the eternal kingdom. To the praise of Christ.
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One day Our Lord making rounds of Paradise saw some strange faces. He asked Peter: Who let these people in?
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Peter: ‘There is nothing i can do.’ The Lord: ‘But you have the key.’ Peter: ‘There is nothing I can do, and you can’t do either.’
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The Lord: ‘What do you mean?’ ‘It’s your mother. She has another key. She let’s them in.’
(From Saint Pio)
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Saint Gertrude Sees How Even the Most Vilest of Sinners Are Saved When They Come to Mary

St. Gertrude one day saw Mary with her mantle extended, beneath which many wild beasts, lions, bears, and tigers had sheltered themselves; and Mary not only did not cast them from her, but received them with pity and caressed them. And by this the saint understood, that the vilest sinners, when they flee to Mary, are not cast out, but welcomed and saved from eternal death. Let us enter, then, into this ark, and seek refuge under the mantle of Mary; for she certainly will not reject us, and will surely save us.
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The Holy Angels heard a Voice from the Throne speaking in the person of the Father: “Our Chosen One Shall Be Called MARY, and this name is to be powerful and magnificent. Those that shall invoke it with devout affection shall receive most abundant graces; those that shall honor it and pronounce it with reverence shall be consoled and vivified, and will find in it the remedy of their evils, the treasures for their enrichment, the light which shall guide them to heaven. It shall be terrible against the power of hell, it shall crush the head of the serpent and it shall win glorious victories over the princes of hell.” (THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD From the Visions of Venerable Mary Agreda)
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It is impossible to save one’s soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.
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St. Anselm
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Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! . . . The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.
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St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
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Without the Blessed Virgin, a person travels along the road to damnation.
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St. Ildephonsus
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No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.
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St. Ildephonsus
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Who is this Gate if not Mary? Mary is the Gate through which Christ entered this world! 
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St. Ambrose
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She is the stairway to Heaven, and the gate of Paradise!
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St. Lawrence Justinian
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All the Saints have a great devotion to Our Lady: no grace comes from Heaven without passing through her hands. We cannot go into a house without speaking to the doorkeeper. Well, the Holy Virgin is the doorkeeper of Heaven.
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St. John Mary Vianney
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All gifts, virtues, and graces of the Holy Ghost are administered by the hands of Mary to whomsoever she desires, when she desires, and in the manner she desires, and to whatever degree she desires. 
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St. Bernardine of Siena
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Mary is the dispensatrix of all the graces God bestows on man.
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St. Bernardine of Siena
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No man is delivered or preserved from the world-wide snares of Satan except through Mary; and God grants His graces to no one except through her alone.
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St. Germanus of Constantinople
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God has decided that we should receive everything from the Father, from the Son, and from the Holy Spirit, and from the Immaculata. This is the only path that each and every grace can follow.
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St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe
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Every grace granted to man in this life has three successive steps: from God it comes to Christ, from Christ to the Virgin, and from the Virgin it descends to us.
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St. Bernardine of Siena
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All graces that have ever been bestowed on men, all of them came through Mary.
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St. Antoninus
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The Lord has placed in Mary the plenitude of all good, so that if any hope, or grace, or salvation is in us, we know that we derive it all from Mary.
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St. Bernard
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Every good, every help, every grace which men have received and will receive from God until the End of Time, came, and will come, to them by the intercession and through the hands of Mary . . . the whole Trinity gave thee a name, O Mary, which after that of thy most holy Son is above every name, so that at thy name every knee should genuflect in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, and every tongue should confess the grace, the glory, and the power of thy most holy name.
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Bl. Raymond Jordano
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All the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.
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St. Ildephonsus
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With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.
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St. Ildephonsus
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Mary became for herself and for all men the cause and fountain of salvation.
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St. Francis de Sales
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God wills that Mary exact from His goodness peace for the earth, glory for Heaven, life for the dead, and salvation for all who are lost. 
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St. Peter Chyrsologus
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Mary desired, sought, and obtained the salvation of everyone; nay, she even effected the salvation of everyone!
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St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
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Just as we are indebted to Jesus Christ for His death, so likewise are we indebted to Mary for the salvation of the world.
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St. Albert the Great
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Who can worthily thank thee and adequately praise thee, O Blessed Virgin, who by thy Fiat hast saved a lost world!
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St. Augustine
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All those who, to the end of time, shall receive the blessing of our heavenly Father . . . shall receive their graces only as a result of their perfect obedience to Mary.
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St. Louis Marie de Montfort
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Through thee, O Holy Virgin, Heaven was populated, Hell emptied, and the ruins of the heavenly Jerusalem rebuilt!
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St. Bernard
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O Lady, since thou art the dispenser of all graces, and since the grace of salvation can come only through thy hands, our salvation depends on thee.
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St. Bernardine of Siena
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O Most Holy Vifgin, receive us under thy protection if thou wouldst see us saved, for we have no hope of salvation but through thy means.
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St. Ephrem 
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O Mary, we poor sinners know no other refuge but thee, for thou art our only hope, and on thee do we rely for our salvation.
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St. Thomas of Villanova
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Unless the prayers of Mary interposed, there could be no hope of mercy.
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St. Bridget of Sweden
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Mary is the whole hope of our salvation.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will: that we obtain everything through Mary.
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Ven. Pope Pius IX
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O, my Lady, next to thy Son Jesus Christ, thou hast always been the chief instrument of our salvation.
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St. Dominic
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We are debtors to the Blessed Virgin, after Christ, for the redemption of the human race.
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St. Peter Damian 
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Sinners receive pardon by the intercession of Mary alone.
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St. John Chrysostom 
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Only at the intercession of Mary do sinners obtain forgiveness . . . They receive pardon only by the intercession of Mary.
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St. Peter Chrysologus
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There is no one in the world who, if he asks for it, does not partake of the Divine mercy through the tenderness of Mary.
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St. Agnes Our salvation rests in thy hands, O Mary! 
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St. Bernardine of Siena 
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You, O Lady, were filled with grace, so that you might be the way of our salvation and the means of ascent into the heavenly kingdom.
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St. Athanasius
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A mediator, then, was needed with the Mediator Himself, nor could a more fitting one be found than Mary.
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St. Bernard 
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Mary is this glorious intermediary; she is the mighty Mother of God.
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Pope Leo XIII
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We need a mediator with our Mediator.
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Council of Rheims 
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She is the mediator between us and Christ, just as Christ is the mediator between us and God.
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St. Bonaventure 
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To reach the Eternal Father, we must go to Jesus, our Mediator of Redemption . . . To go to Jesus, we must go to Mary: she is our Mediatrix of Intercession.
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St. Louis Marie de Montfort
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As you cannot come to God except by means of Jesus Christ, you likewise cannot come to Christ except by means of His Mother . . . As we have access to the Father only by means of the Son, so do we have access to the Son only by means of the Mother.
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St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
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Through thee do we have access to thy Son, O Blessed Discoverer of Grace, O Mother of Life, O Mother of Salvation!
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St. Bernard
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By the will of God nothing is conferred upon us except by means of Mary; and just as no one is able to approach the Most High Father except through His Son, so too no one approaches Christ but through Mary His Mother.
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St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe
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We cannot approach Jesus but through Mary; we can see Jesus and speak to Him only by means of her.
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St. Louis Marie de Montfort
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For, since it is the will of Divine Providence that we should have the God-Man through Mary, there is no other way for us to receive Christ except from her hands.
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Pope St. Pius X
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Our sanctity depends on the degree of our nearness to Mary. She is the nearest to God, and if we are the nearest to her then we therefore will be nearest, through her, to God Himself.
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St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe
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No one ever finds Christ but with and through Mary. Whoever seeks Christ apart from Mary seeks Him in vain.
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St. Bonaventure
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He who wishes to find Jesus will do so only by having recourse to Mary.
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St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
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He who desires to find Jesus will not find Him otherwise than through Mary.
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St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
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The Child is not found without Mary, His Mother . . . If, then, it is impossible to separate what God has united, it is also certain that you cannot find Jesus except with Mary and through Mary.
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Pope St. Pius X
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Where Mary is, there is the Son!
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St. Paul of the Cross