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It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

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
Godfather
Offer
Refuse
Offers
Father
Makes

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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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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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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.
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Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
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