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The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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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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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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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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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.
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Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: Enter into the joy of your Lord (Mt 25:21).
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No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
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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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If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
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Actually, we have misdefined hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.
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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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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 Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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