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The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

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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Place
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Altar
World
Altars
Womb
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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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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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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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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
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Actually, we have misdefined hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
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The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.
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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people legalism sees no people, only principles.
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Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
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We can't avoid reasoning we can only avoid doing it well.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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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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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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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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