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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.

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
Healing
Meaning
Purpose
Hope
Need
Wound
Needs
Deepest
Frustration
Wounds

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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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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.
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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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In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.
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The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
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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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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
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Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
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Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.
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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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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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