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The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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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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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people legalism sees no people, only principles.
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The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
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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 people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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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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Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.
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Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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