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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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The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.
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The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.
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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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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
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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 Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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