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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.

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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Love
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
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God created the possibility of evil people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.
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Grey is the devil's favorite color.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.
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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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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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Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
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