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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
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Paterson
New Jersey
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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
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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.
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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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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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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.
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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.
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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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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.
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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
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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.
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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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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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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.
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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.
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The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.
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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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