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God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. -- Peter Kreeft
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The idea of resolving conflicts by killing people (which is what war is) is not a just thing, a just idea. In that sense there is no such thing as "just war". But to wage a given war may be a just action. -- Peter Kreeft
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Condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. -- Peter Kreeft
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Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time. -- Peter Kreeft
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Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life. Here -- Peter Kreeft
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Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.' -- Peter Kreeft
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb. -- Peter Kreeft
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Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness. -- Peter Kreeft
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There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself. -- Peter Kreeft
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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills. -- Peter Kreeft
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee. -- Peter Kreeft
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So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls. -- Peter Kreeft
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Why pray if we cannot change God? ... is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it. -- Peter Kreeft
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The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong. -- Peter Kreeft
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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know. -- Peter Kreeft
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God said it, that settles it. -- Peter Kreeft
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Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos. -- Peter Kreeft
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Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff. -- Peter Kreeft
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Grey is the devil's favorite color. -- Peter Kreeft
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The solution to our suffering is our suffering! -- Peter Kreeft
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Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits. -- Peter Kreeft
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The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin! -- Peter Kreeft
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Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature. -- Peter Kreeft
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We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality. -- Peter Kreeft
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile. -- Peter Kreeft
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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints. -- Peter Kreeft
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High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility. -- Peter Kreeft
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We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well. -- Peter Kreeft
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You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance. -- Peter Kreeft
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Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is. -- Peter Kreeft
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The universal sin Saint Paul pinpoints in Romans 1:18 is to suppress the truth. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse. -- Peter Kreeft
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All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people. -- Peter Kreeft
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are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore, -- Peter Kreeft
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego. -- Peter Kreeft
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God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness. -- Peter Kreeft
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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. -- Peter Kreeft
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself? -- Peter Kreeft
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The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. -- Peter Kreeft
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God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful. -- Peter Kreeft
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Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness -- Peter Kreeft
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True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross. -- Peter Kreeft
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We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. -- Peter Kreeft
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The species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal happiness. Thus, -- Peter Kreeft
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God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship. -- Peter Kreeft
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Kennedy: You mean it's not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life's red ink certainly outweighed the black. Kennedy: -- Peter Kreeft
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You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love. -- Peter Kreeft
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This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. -- Peter Kreeft
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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all. -- Peter Kreeft
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God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy. -- Peter Kreeft
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Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.) -- Peter Kreeft
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Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: "I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you." "Thy will be done" is the essential prayer of the saint; "my will be done" is the essential demand of the sinner. -- Peter Kreeft
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. -- Peter Kreeft
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Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word. -- Peter Kreeft
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If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment. -- Peter Kreeft
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He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us. -- Peter Kreeft
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You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of Heaven when you die. -- Peter Kreeft
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The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst. -- Peter Kreeft
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(4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will. -- Peter Kreeft
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God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first. -- Peter Kreeft
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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts. -- Peter Kreeft
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Suppose the god, the goal of progress, is changing. Then progress becomes impossible. How could we progress toward a goal that keeps receding? How could a runner make progress toward a finish line if someone kept moving it as he ran? -- Peter Kreeft
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Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction. -- Peter Kreeft
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The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. -- Peter Kreeft
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Don't confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method was to question everything. But he believed in absolute truth; he was no sceptic. -- Peter Kreeft
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Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul. -- Peter Kreeft
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We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable. -- Peter Kreeft
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A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits. -- Peter Kreeft
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No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce. -- Peter Kreeft
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Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating. -- Peter Kreeft
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Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." -- Peter Kreeft
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The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death. -- Peter Kreeft
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The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth. -- Peter Kreeft
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of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built. -- Peter Kreeft
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Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time. -- Peter Kreeft
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In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life. -- Peter Kreeft
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When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils. -- Peter Kreeft
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Suffering together builds togetherness, and if togetherness is more important for us and for our joy than freedom from suffering is, then God is good to allow this suffering. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. -- Peter Kreeft
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No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism. -- Peter Kreeft
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the instinct Rousseau found in himself and followed: the instinct to deceive, rob, and seduce rich ladies and to abandon his own children. -- Peter Kreeft
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Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way. -- Peter Kreeft
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Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto. -- Peter Kreeft
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The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way. -- Peter Kreeft
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Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul. -- Peter Kreeft
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Dulia is like a high but finite number; hyperdulia is like the highest number out of a finite number of finite numbers; latria is like infinity. -- Peter Kreeft
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Life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet. -- Peter Kreeft
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What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final meaning of our daily work. -- Peter Kreeft
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Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints ... He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly. -- Peter Kreeft
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Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's -- Peter Kreeft
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility. -- Peter Kreeft
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An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth. -- Peter Kreeft
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Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons. -- Peter Kreeft
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Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible. -- Peter Kreeft
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Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement. -- Peter Kreeft
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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. -- Peter Kreeft
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But we will probably never see this, never move from original selfishness to universal charity and unselfishness, without the intermediate step of the family. -- Peter Kreeft
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Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness. -- Peter Kreeft
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Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative]. -- Peter Kreeft
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love. -- Peter Kreeft
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Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love. -- Peter Kreeft
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Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy. -- Peter Kreeft
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Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging. -- Peter Kreeft
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(For instance, it is a "hate crime" to quote certain politically incorrect verses from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in any public arena.) -- Peter Kreeft
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For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique. -- Peter Kreeft
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Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived. -- Peter Kreeft
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One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility. -- Peter Kreeft
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There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign. -- Peter Kreeft
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America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce. -- Peter Kreeft
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The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love. -- Peter Kreeft
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The Lutheran alternative to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation which is called consubstantiation, in which the bread and wine are not changed but added to, so that Christ becomes really present along with them but they remain. -- Peter Kreeft
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Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us. -- Peter Kreeft
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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself. -- Peter Kreeft
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. -- Peter Kreeft
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The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece ... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is ... everything. -- Peter Kreeft
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Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. -- Peter Kreeft
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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake. -- Peter Kreeft
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The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map. -- Peter Kreeft
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It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under - do as to over - do what Scripture says. -- Peter Kreeft
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Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world. -- Peter Kreeft
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Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness. -- Peter Kreeft
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The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil. -- Peter Kreeft
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Unworthy" does not mean "undeserving", for we are all undeserving! It means "incapable of receiving. -- Peter Kreeft
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When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you. -- Peter Kreeft
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Since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says -- Peter Kreeft
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For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich! -- Peter Kreeft
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How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning. -- Peter Kreeft
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However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God, -- Peter Kreeft
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning. -- Peter Kreeft
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Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs ... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost. -- Peter Kreeft
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Man's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his mind, and pagan mythmakers for his heart and imagination and feelings. Of course, the latter two are not infallible. -- Peter Kreeft
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There - fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will. -- Peter Kreeft
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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony. -- Peter Kreeft
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In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity. -- Peter Kreeft
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If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. -- Peter Kreeft
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We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light. -- Peter Kreeft
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If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them. -- Peter Kreeft
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Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside. -- Peter Kreeft
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To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part. -- Peter Kreeft
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Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know. -- Peter Kreeft
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Many saints were made out of passionate sinners - the angry, the hating, the lustful, the cynical; but none were ever made out of the slothful. -- Peter Kreeft
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Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering. -- Peter Kreeft
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Scholastics called the "irascible" (averting) and "concupiscible" (attracting) emotions. -- Peter Kreeft
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No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior. -- Peter Kreeft
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If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real. -- Peter Kreeft
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Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas. -- Peter Kreeft
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God loves us more than we love Him. -- Peter Kreeft
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Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man. -- Peter Kreeft
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Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. -- Peter Kreeft
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We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us. -- Peter Kreeft
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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous. -- Peter Kreeft
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Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice. -- Peter Kreeft
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All life is an emergency. -- Peter Kreeft
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God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men -- Peter Kreeft
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That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair?
Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people. -- Peter Kreeft
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(That's why contraception is wrong by nature: it's a limit, a "Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won't give each other Everything") -- Peter Kreeft
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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself - and perhaps even through human reason? -- Peter Kreeft
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not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam. -- Peter Kreeft
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Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue. -- Peter Kreeft
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Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular". -- Peter Kreeft
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The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation. -- Peter Kreeft
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Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied. -- Peter Kreeft
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We too can love with the will even when we do not have loving emotions or feelings. We make this distinction toward ourselves quite easily, so we should be able to do it toward others too when necessary. -- Peter Kreeft
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God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity. -- Peter Kreeft
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. -- Peter Kreeft
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The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause. -- Peter Kreeft
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No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul. -- Peter Kreeft
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Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. -- Peter Kreeft
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Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things. -- Peter Kreeft
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I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice. -- Peter Kreeft
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A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life. -- Peter Kreeft
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Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In -- Peter Kreeft
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Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world. -- Peter Kreeft
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We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust. -- Peter Kreeft
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The transformation of Christ's bodily scars into badges of glory shows us what happens, even in this life, to our souls when we lovingly and trustingly offer our sufferings to Christ and unite them to His. He turns "deformity" into "dignity". -- Peter Kreeft
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Even though we hate some of the things we do or feel, we hate them only because we love ourselves. We feel we are unworthy of such bad stuff. -- Peter Kreeft
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There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it. -- Peter Kreeft
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But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness. -- Peter Kreeft
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Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit. -- Peter Kreeft
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Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul. -- Peter Kreeft
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Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin". -- Peter Kreeft
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Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. -- Peter Kreeft
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God's solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father's love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that's the heart of the Christian story. -- Peter Kreeft
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As C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world. -- Peter Kreeft
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Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil. -- Peter Kreeft
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The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool. -- Peter Kreeft
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Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves. -- Peter Kreeft
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Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind. -- Peter Kreeft
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Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests. -- Peter Kreeft
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A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless. -- Peter Kreeft
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I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead. -- Peter Kreeft
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The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others. -- Peter Kreeft
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we forgive those who trespass -- Peter Kreeft
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For any act to be morally right, three things are necessary: (1) right act, (2) right motive, and (3) right circumstances. If any one of these factors is not right, the act is wrong. -- Peter Kreeft
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2. Greed, or acquisitive desire. -- Peter Kreeft
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option. -- Peter Kreeft
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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith. -- Peter Kreeft
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It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy. -- Peter Kreeft
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We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us: -- Peter Kreeft
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when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . . -- Peter Kreeft
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By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. -- Peter Kreeft
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Catholics have seldom had the difficulties and embarrassments many Protestants have had about creation vs. evolution. Ever since Augustine, they have interpreted Genesis' "days" non-literally. -- Peter Kreeft
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Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth. -- Peter Kreeft
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shows how fruitful analogies can be - not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images. -- Peter Kreeft
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We are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason. -- Peter Kreeft
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St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint. -- Peter Kreeft
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Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we must be either sinners who think we are saints, or saints who know we are sinners. Even -- Peter Kreeft
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Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption? -- Peter Kreeft
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It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies. -- Peter Kreeft
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If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it. -- Peter Kreeft
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If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything. -- Peter Kreeft
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The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times. -- Peter Kreeft
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Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will. -- Peter Kreeft
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Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. -- Peter Kreeft
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[T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5). -- Peter Kreeft
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God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them. -- Peter Kreeft
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Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is why God created matter, most of all the human body, which has the greatest power to make spirit visible. (Thus the philosopher Wittgenstein, asked what a human soul could possibly look like, answered, "Like a human body.") -- Peter Kreeft
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Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does -- Peter Kreeft
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It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth. -- Peter Kreeft
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Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too. -- Peter Kreeft
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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God. -- Peter Kreeft
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The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. -- Peter Kreeft
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In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw "the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply "space. -- Peter Kreeft
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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus. -- Peter Kreeft
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Tempting is not forcing. -- Peter Kreeft
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Another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once. -- Peter Kreeft
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Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. -- Peter Kreeft
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The nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself; -- Peter Kreeft
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The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe. -- Peter Kreeft
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If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise. -- Peter Kreeft
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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map. -- Peter Kreeft
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The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd. -- Peter Kreeft
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Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God. -- Peter Kreeft
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Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. -- Peter Kreeft
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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself. -- Peter Kreeft
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God's wraith is really only the face of love refused. -- Peter Kreeft
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Life is hard, but death is even harder. -- Peter Kreeft
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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one ... -- Peter Kreeft
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Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. -- Peter Kreeft
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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood. -- Peter Kreeft
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We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7). -- Peter Kreeft
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God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity. -- Peter Kreeft
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's. -- Peter Kreeft
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When I ask my "Catholic" students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ. -- Peter Kreeft
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'. -- Peter Kreeft
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike". -- Peter Kreeft
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The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. -- Peter Kreeft
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If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction. -- Peter Kreeft
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal. -- Peter Kreeft
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All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We -- Peter Kreeft
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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more. -- Peter Kreeft
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You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint. -- Peter Kreeft
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Great saints are never wimps. -- Peter Kreeft
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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp. -- Peter Kreeft
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If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him. -- Peter Kreeft
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Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you. -- Peter Kreeft
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Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners. -- Peter Kreeft
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The meaning of life is to become a saint. -- Peter Kreeft
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On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.' -- Peter Kreeft
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You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray. -- Peter Kreeft
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The more consciously and freely we choose an evil, the more responsible we are for it and the more guilty we are of it; this is why spiritual sins like pride are greater in guilt than carnal sins. -- Peter Kreeft
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Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna. -- Peter Kreeft
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If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness. -- Peter Kreeft
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Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God. -- Peter Kreeft
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Things look different when history is seen as His-story. -- Peter Kreeft
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up. -- Peter Kreeft
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Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda. -- Peter Kreeft
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The purpose of Purgatory is to completely internalize, in your own individual soul, what Christ has completely accomplished in objective reality in His Passion. Nothing -- Peter Kreeft
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Socrates: So was I.
Bertha: Are you saying you're as great as him, then?
Socrates: No, no, on the contrary, I'm assuming just the opposite! -- Peter Kreeft
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After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them. -- Peter Kreeft
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Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power. -- Peter Kreeft
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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. -- Peter Kreeft
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the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life. -- Peter Kreeft
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Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real. -- Peter Kreeft
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Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same. -- Peter Kreeft
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De Caussade makes this matter of duty very simple, too, as he makes everything simple: "We have two duties to fulfill: we must actively seek to carry God's will into effect and passively accept all that his will sends us" (p. 73). That's all. That's it. -- Peter Kreeft
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Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one. -- Peter Kreeft
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To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me". -- Peter Kreeft
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Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains. -- Peter Kreeft
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Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face. -- Peter Kreeft
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A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. -- Peter Kreeft
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The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given. -- Peter Kreeft
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence. -- Peter Kreeft
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again. -- Peter Kreeft
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I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves. -- Peter Kreeft
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The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness. -- Peter Kreeft
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Gratitude is the seedbed of joy. -- Peter Kreeft
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Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow. -- Peter Kreeft
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Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time. -- Peter Kreeft
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When God changed someone's name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter. -- Peter Kreeft
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Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. -- Peter Kreeft
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If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes. -- Peter Kreeft
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A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being. -- Peter Kreeft
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Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower. -- Peter Kreeft
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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation. -- Peter Kreeft
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Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not. -- Peter Kreeft
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The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history. -- Peter Kreeft
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Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked. -- Peter Kreeft
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Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace. -- Peter Kreeft
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I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets. -- Peter Kreeft
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There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method. -- Peter Kreeft
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Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts. -- Peter Kreeft
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Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are. -- Peter Kreeft
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One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world. -- Peter Kreeft
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Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination. -- Peter Kreeft
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But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us, -- Peter Kreeft
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This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which ... is in God himself, while hate is not in God but is in Satan. If we do not clearly distinguish anger from hatred, then we do not clearly distinguish God from Satan! -- Peter Kreeft
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A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it. -- Peter Kreeft
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God. -- Peter Kreeft
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Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21). -- Peter Kreeft
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The root of pride is found to consist in man not being in some way subject to God and His rule. -- Peter Kreeft
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What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will. -- Peter Kreeft
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desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection - indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring, -- Peter Kreeft
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When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin. -- Peter Kreeft
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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities. -- Peter Kreeft
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Love gives you eyes. -- Peter Kreeft
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. -- Peter Kreeft
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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. -- Peter Kreeft
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We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions. -- Peter Kreeft
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The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints. -- Peter Kreeft
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Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it. -- Peter Kreeft
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music. -- Peter Kreeft
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It's like a government agency that really works. -- Peter Kreeft
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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. -- Peter Kreeft
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Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life. -- Peter Kreeft
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Thanksgiving comes after Christmas. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray. -- Peter Kreeft
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we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice. -- Peter Kreeft
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Why would the apostles lie? ... Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks! -- Peter Kreeft
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The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do ... create. -- Peter Kreeft
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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved. -- Peter Kreeft
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We are artists, because God is. -- Peter Kreeft
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Thus, though Christians are in no way bound by the Jewish ceremonial or civil laws (because they were all in some way preparatory for Christ), we are still under the Ten Commandments in one way, though not in two other ways. -- Peter Kreeft
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Live a life of love, especially the love of God, and observe the joy of it. Live a life of lovelessness and observe the joylessness of it. -- Peter Kreeft
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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it's worth it, that it pays. -- Peter Kreeft
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Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves. -- Peter Kreeft
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You see, passion alone is a blind power. It's fire without light. It just ignites whatever it touches, good or evil, truth or lies, unselfishness or selfishness, love or lust. -- Peter Kreeft
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth. -- Peter Kreeft
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The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ. -- Peter Kreeft
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Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love. -- Peter Kreeft
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It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. -- Peter Kreeft
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything. -- Peter Kreeft
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. -- Peter Kreeft
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You cannot be in love with love. -- Peter Kreeft
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When the soul no longer conforms to the will of God, the body no longer conforms to the will of the soul. -- Peter Kreeft
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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive -- Peter Kreeft
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One of the reasons lust is bad (not the only reason) is that it makes you stupid. Like any addiction, it blinds your vision to everything else and focuses it on the one thing that is the object of your addiction. -- Peter Kreeft
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The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist. -- Peter Kreeft
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Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society. -- Peter Kreeft
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. -- Peter Kreeft
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With every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him. -- Peter Kreeft
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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate. -- Peter Kreeft
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There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy. -- Peter Kreeft
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The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love. -- Peter Kreeft
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Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers - which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice. -- Peter Kreeft
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In a sense "all the way to Heaven is Heaven" (St. Catherine). -- Peter Kreeft
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In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left -- Peter Kreeft
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That freedom is lost in Hell. -- Peter Kreeft
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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth. -- Peter Kreeft
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The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope. -- Peter Kreeft
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ora et labora, prayer and work. -- Peter Kreeft
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The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater. -- Peter Kreeft
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Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on. -- Peter Kreeft
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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither. -- Peter Kreeft
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Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth. -- Peter Kreeft
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Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own. -- Peter Kreeft
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war between paralyzed telepaths. -- Peter Kreeft
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the way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. . -- Peter Kreeft
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Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious: -- Peter Kreeft
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Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe. -- Peter Kreeft
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Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence. -- Peter Kreeft
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It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one. -- Peter Kreeft
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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry. -- Peter Kreeft
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters. -- Peter Kreeft
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Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will. -- Peter Kreeft
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murder and adultery are great crimes. -- Peter Kreeft
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Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience. -- Peter Kreeft
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Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. -- Peter Kreeft
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Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words. -- Peter Kreeft
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. -- Peter Kreeft
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is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He -- Peter Kreeft
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his total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute -- Peter Kreeft
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For everything naturally desires good, -- Peter Kreeft
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All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life. -- Peter Kreeft
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Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know. -- Peter Kreeft