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We can't avoid reasoning we can only avoid doing it well.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
Reasoning
Avoid
Wells
Well

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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?
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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.
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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.
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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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.
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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.
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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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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.
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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
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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.
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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.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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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.
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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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