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The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?
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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
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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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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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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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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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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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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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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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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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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