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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

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
Heaven
Frigidity
Bond
Humility
Pride
Marriage
Hell

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Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
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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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Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
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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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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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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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Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
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Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
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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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The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
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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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Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
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Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
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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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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
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Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
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