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Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

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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 Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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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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Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.
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Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.
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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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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
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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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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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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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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.
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Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.
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Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
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