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  1. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    the modern world has rejected for the last three hundred years {after believing in it for the first sixteen hundred years}, namely, the virgin birth of Jesus from His Mother, Mary, who is a virgin.
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  2. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    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.
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  3. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden were celebrated the first nuptials of God and man.
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    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.
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  5. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    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.
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  6. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.
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  7. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    As in Eden there took place the first espousals of man and woman, so, in her, there took place the first espousals of God and man, eternity and time, omnipotence and bonds. In
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  8. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    One will never find a professor who denies freedom of the will who does not also have something in his life for which he wishes to shake off responsibility.
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  9. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

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

    I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.
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  11. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    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.
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  12. Fulton J. Sheen _ The World's First Love: Mary,

    Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.
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