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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John 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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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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.
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Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.
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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.
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The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.
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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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The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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 opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
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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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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.
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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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