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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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Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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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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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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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.
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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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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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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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 sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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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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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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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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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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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
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