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When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

Peter Kreeft

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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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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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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
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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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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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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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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
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The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.
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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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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
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Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
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We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
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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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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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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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