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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).

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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Joy
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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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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
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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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Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
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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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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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