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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
Love
Untrue
Unreal
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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
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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.
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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.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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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.
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Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.
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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.
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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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Control language and you control thought control thought and you control action control action and you control the world.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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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.
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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.
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