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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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Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
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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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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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Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.
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How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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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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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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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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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
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Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.
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If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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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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