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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
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
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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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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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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
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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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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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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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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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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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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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We can't avoid reasoning we can only avoid doing it well.
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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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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.
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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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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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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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