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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
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Paterson
New Jersey
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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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The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.
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Grey is the devil's favorite color.
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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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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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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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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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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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 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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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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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: Enter into the joy of your Lord (Mt 25:21).
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Actually, we have misdefined hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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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