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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.

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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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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