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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.

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
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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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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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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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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.
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Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
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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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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces nice people, not heroes.
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If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
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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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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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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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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.
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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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