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Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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Paterson
New Jersey
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If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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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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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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