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Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
Peter Kreeft
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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
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Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
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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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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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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.
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The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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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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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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God created the possibility of evil people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.
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There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.
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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
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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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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 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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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
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Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
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Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
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