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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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Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.
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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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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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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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