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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
Catholic
Cannot
Love

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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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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
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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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Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
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