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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.

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.
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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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Great saints are never wimps.
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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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Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in 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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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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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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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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Control language and you control thought control thought and you control action control action and you control the world.
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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 block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.
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Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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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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For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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