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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

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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To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me.
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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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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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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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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces nice people, not heroes.
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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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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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Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross the cross is the context that explains suffering.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
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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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Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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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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