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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

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
Loved
Else
Everything
God
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How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
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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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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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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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The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.
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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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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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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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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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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
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Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me.
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The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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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