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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
Given
Away
Give
Find
Self
Giving
Real
Somehow
Catholic

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God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
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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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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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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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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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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Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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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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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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