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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

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
Crocodiles
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Crocodile

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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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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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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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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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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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