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

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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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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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.
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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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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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Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
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Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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We can't avoid reasoning we can only avoid doing it well.
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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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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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Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
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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.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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