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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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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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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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To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me.
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God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
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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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It is said that there are three sources of evil, the world, the flesh, and the Devil but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.
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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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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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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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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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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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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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