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• Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

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  Catholic, Spirit, Holy

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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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  Children, Race, Unborn Child

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• Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

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  Atheist, Lying, Heart

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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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  Religious, Reason, Skeptic

  Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.371, InterVarsity Press

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• The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

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  Animal, Civilization, Dying

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.11, Ignatius Press

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

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  Two, Giver, Receiver

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.79, Ignatius Press

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• Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

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  Saint, Want, Praying

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.154, Ignatius Press

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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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  Sleep, Apes, Oxymoron

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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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  Truth, Promise, Scripture

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.75, Ignatius Press

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• No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

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  Soul, Emotion, Sin

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

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  Purpose, Ethics, Illusion

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• You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

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  Existence, Importance, Convince

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• It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

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  Reason, Absolutes, Relative

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• God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.

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  God, Caring, Understanding

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.109, Ignatius Press

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• Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

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  Christmas

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• The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

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  Two, Evil, Maps

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• To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

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  Worship, Crocodiles

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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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  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

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  Earthquakes, Miracle, Agents

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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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  Evil, Would Be, Three

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.59, Ignatius Press

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• condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

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  Gun, Twenties, Four

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.66, Ignatius Press

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• We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.

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  Hate, Particular

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas”, p.217, Ignatius Press

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• A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

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  Wall, Men, Miracle

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.93, Ignatius Press

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• Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

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  Prayer, Catholic, Dinner

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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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  Absolutism, Want, Morality

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