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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

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
Fatal
Gets
Alive
Always
Life

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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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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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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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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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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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True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not luv. Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.
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Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people legalism sees no people, only principles.
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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.
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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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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
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There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.
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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
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Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
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