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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.

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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Hardly
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Hear
Christ
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World
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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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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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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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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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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
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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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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives our very tears help wipe away tears our being hated helps those we love.
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Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name Jesus means: 'God saves'.
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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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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