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You cannot be in love with love.

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
Love
Catholic
Cannot

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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?
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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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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.
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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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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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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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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
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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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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
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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.
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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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