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A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
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Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
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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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Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
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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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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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Original sin is the proclivity to say my will be done instead of thy will be done.
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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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Indifference is the only road that never gets to 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 modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
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God created the possibility of evil people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.
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Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
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When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
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Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
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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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