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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].

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 scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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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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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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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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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives our very tears help wipe away tears our being hated helps those we love.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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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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Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
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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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Control language and you control thought control thought and you control action control action and you control the world.
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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
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