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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
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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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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Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
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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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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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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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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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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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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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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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The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.
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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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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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