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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

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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Works
Heaven
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Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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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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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.
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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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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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