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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
Sinned
Incomprehensible
Excess
Saved
Lack
Jesus
Reason
Love

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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.
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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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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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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.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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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.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
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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 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.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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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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The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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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.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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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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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
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