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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

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
Piety
Maps
Virtue
True

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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.
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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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Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
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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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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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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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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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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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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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