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Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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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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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not luv. Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.
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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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If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
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To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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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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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
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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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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.
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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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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.
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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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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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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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