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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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Paterson
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
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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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Control language and you control thought control thought and you control action control action and you control the world.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross the cross is the context that explains suffering.
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Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
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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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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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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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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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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
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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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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
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Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
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In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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