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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

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
Wholly
Saint
Reason

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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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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.
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How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
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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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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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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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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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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
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No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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The national anthem of hell is, I Did It My Way.
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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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