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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
Humility
Pride
Marriage
Hell
Heaven
Frigidity
Bond

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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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We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
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It is said that there are three sources of evil, the world, the flesh, and the Devil but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.
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Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
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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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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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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
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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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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
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The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term only if we love, do we trust and only if we trust, do we believe.
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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
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The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.
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