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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
Works
Heaven
Faith
Good
Gotten

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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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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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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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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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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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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
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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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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
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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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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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The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
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