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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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Never
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Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
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When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
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Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
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Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.
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Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
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The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
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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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Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
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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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