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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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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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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 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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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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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
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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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The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
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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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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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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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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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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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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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