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Great saints are never wimps.

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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The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.
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Control language and you control thought control thought and you control action control action and you control the world.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?
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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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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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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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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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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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Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
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