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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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The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.
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Control language and you control thought control thought and you control action control action and you control the world.
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name Jesus means: 'God saves'.
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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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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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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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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.
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The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.
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It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
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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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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
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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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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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