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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.
Peter Kreeft
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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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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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Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
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The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term only if we love, do we trust and only if we trust, do we believe.
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Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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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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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
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Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
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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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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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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.
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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
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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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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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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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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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