Fulton Sheen - Quotes on Mary

 

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• “God, Who made the sun, also made the moon. The moon does not take away from the brilliance of the sun. All its light is reflected from the sun. So Mary reflects her Divine Son; without Him, she is nothing. With Him, she is the Mother of men.”
• “Mary receives praise as a mirror receives light: She stores it not, nor even acknowledged it, but makes it pass from her to God to whom is due all praise, all honor and thanksgiving.”
• “Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.”

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“The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“as the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, World’s First Love, The

“She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers—she is the world’s first love.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love from the people it sees, from the books it reads, from its hopes and daydreams, in the fond hope that the eye may one day see the ideal and the hand touch it. Life becomes satisfying the moment the dream is seen walking, and the person appears as the incarnation of all that one loved. The”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation.” Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“As our love does not start with Mary, so neither does it stop with Mary. Mary is a window through which our humanity first catches a glimpse of Divinity on earth. Or perhaps she is more like a magnifying glass; she intensifies our love of her Son and makes our prayers more bright and burning.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“As the “no” of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“The mystery of the Incarnation is very simply that of God’s asking a woman freely to give Him a human nature.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, “You know how it is; one tries to make one’s Mummy just as nice as he can.” When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could—and that would make her a perfect Mother.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God