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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

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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Actually, we have misdefined hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
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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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Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.
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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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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
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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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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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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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We do not do good works to get into heaven we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?
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If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
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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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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
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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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