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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
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?
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Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.
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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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You cannot be in love with love.
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Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people legalism sees no people, only principles.
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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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We can't avoid reasoning we can only avoid doing it well.
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If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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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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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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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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Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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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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