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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

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
Humility

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To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me.
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If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
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Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
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Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.
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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces nice people, not heroes.
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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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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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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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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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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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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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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
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Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: Enter into the joy of your Lord (Mt 25:21).
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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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