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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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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.
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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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