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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
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Theologian
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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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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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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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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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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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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Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
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It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.
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It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
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Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.
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Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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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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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
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Grey is the devil's favorite color.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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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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