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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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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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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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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people legalism sees no people, only principles.
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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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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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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The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
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