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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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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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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
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True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not luv. Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.
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You cannot be in love with love.
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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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Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
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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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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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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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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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