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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

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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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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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.
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Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.
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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces nice people, not heroes.
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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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We can't avoid reasoning we can only avoid doing it well.
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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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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The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
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Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: Enter into the joy of your Lord (Mt 25:21).
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Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
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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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The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.
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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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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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