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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.

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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Wet
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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
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Great saints are never wimps.
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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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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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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
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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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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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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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The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
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Grey is the devil's favorite color.
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We can't avoid reasoning we can only avoid doing it well.
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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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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
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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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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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