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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
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name Jesus means: 'God saves'.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
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The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.
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A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
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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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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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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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The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.
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