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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
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Sake
Loved
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Everything

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Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.
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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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Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
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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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Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.
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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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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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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 big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
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Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
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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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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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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives our very tears help wipe away tears our being hated helps those we love.
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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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