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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

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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Two
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Freedoms
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All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
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A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
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Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.
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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people legalism sees no people, only principles.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
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Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
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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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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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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
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To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me.
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