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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.

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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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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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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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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Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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