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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.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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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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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name Jesus means: 'God saves'.
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Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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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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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
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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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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.
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Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.
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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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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
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It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
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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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It is said that there are three sources of evil, the world, the flesh, and the Devil but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
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