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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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Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.
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Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.
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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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Grey is the devil's favorite color.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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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.
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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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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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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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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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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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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
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Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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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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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
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Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
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