I would highly recommend your reading THE WORLD’S FIRST LOVE by Bishop Fulton Sheen. Hopefully, some of the excerpts below will encourage you to read it.
“The egotist magnifies himself, but Mary magnifies the Lord….As our ego inflated, the need for God seems to be less; as our ego deflates, the need of God appears in its true hunger.” P. 41
“Obedience to the law of nature produces physical maturity; obedience to the law of parents produces mental maturity; obedience to the will of the Heavenly Father produces spiritual maturity.” P.104
“Mary’s sorrow was not what she suffered but what He had to suffer. That was the tragedy. Love never thinks of itself.” P. 244
“Eden reversed: Three things cooperated in our fall: a disobedient Man, Adam; a proud woman, Eve; and a tree. God takes the three elements that led to the defeat of man and uses them as instruments of victory: the obedient new Adam, Christ; the humble new Eve, Mary and the tree of the cross.” P. 256
“Mary’ Fiat was one of the great Fiats of the universe: one made light, another accepted the Father’s will in the Garden, and hers accepted a life of selfless fellowship with the Cross….Our will is the only thing that is absolutely our own; hence it is the perfect offering we can make to God….There is only one thing in the world that can prevent finding each (God and one) and that is the human will. We must will to find God; otherwise He will always seem to be the hidden God.” P. 258
“It is not that God has abandoned the world but that the world has abandoned God and cast its lot with nature divorced from nature’s God….The new name for nature is science. Science rightly understood means reading he wisdom of God in nature. Science wrongly understood means reading the proofs of the book of nature while denying the book ever had an Author.” P. 270
“The child, by making himself wiser than his mother, discovers his stupidity. Man, by making himself a god, discovers the painful agony that he is not God. When the first man made this discover, Scripture describes him as “naked”. Naked, because the man who neglects or rejects God has nothing. He may cover himself for a while with the fig leaves of “success,” “art,” “science,” and “progress” or by rationalizing his conduct, saying that there is not truth. But he knows that these are but inadequate shred and cannot cover all his wants. This is modern nudity – to be without God.”
Sheen, Fulton THE WORLD’S FIRST LOVE. Ignatius Press. http://www.ignatius.com/Products/CategoryCenter.aspx?SearchTerm=The+world’s+first+love
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