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If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

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
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If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
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Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
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Control language and you control thought control thought and you control action control action and you control the world.
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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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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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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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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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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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