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Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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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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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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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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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.
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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 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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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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If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.
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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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