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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
Oxymoron
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Apes
Sleep
Dies
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Ontological

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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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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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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
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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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When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
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Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
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Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross the cross is the context that explains suffering.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
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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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Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.
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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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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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It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
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