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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
Philosopher
Professor
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Paterson
New Jersey
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Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives our very tears help wipe away tears our being hated helps those we love.
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Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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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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The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
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The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.
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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 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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Grey is the devil's favorite color.
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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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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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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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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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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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