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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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God created the possibility of evil people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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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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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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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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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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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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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
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Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.
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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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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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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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In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.
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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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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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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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