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• Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

  Peter Kreeft

  Saint, Way, Knows

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• It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

  Peter Kreeft

  Real, Fictional Stories, Easier

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• Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

  Peter Kreeft

  Alive, Life Is

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Love is Stronger Than Death”, p.8, Ignatius Press

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• Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Idols, Practice

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.93, Ignatius Press

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• The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

  Peter Kreeft

  Eye, Poet, Scientist

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.46, Ignatius 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.

  Peter Kreeft

  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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, Giver, Receiver

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

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• God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Morning, Real

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.20, Ignatius Press

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• A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Heart, Mean

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.96, Ignatius Press

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• Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Levels, Force

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.30, 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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• To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Love Is

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.29, Ignatius Press

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• Life is hard, but death is even harder.

  Peter Kreeft

  Life Is Hard, Life Is, Harder

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley”, p.137, InterVarsity Press

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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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Truth, Promise, Scripture

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

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Simple, Achievement, Insane

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• Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Attitude, Indifference

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• A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

  Peter Kreeft

  Responsibility, Men, Privilege

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• The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Purpose, Ethics, Illusion

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

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  Humility, Pride, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

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  Opportunity, Eternal Happiness, Purpose

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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.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Caring, Understanding

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

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Existence, Importance, Convince

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• Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.

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  Clever, Believe, Light

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• When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

  Peter Kreeft

  Feminist, Saint, Pupils

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