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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

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
Pay
Worth
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Bargain
Unconsciously
Bargains
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Sin

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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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Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
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For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
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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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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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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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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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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 modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
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Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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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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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
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The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.
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