Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 2

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• Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

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  Grace, God's Grace, Emptiness

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• Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

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  Done, Sin, Originals

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• Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

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  Prayer, Doctors, Soul

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.14, Ignatius Press

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

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  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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• Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

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  Atheist, Typewriters, Years

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.26, Ignatius Press

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• The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

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  Opposites, Atheism, Christianity

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• A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

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  Trying, Saint, Harder

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• Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

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  Pain, Simple, Listening To Others

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer”, p.34, Ignatius Press

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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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  Men, Religion, Stories

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• God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

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  Powerful, Evil People, World

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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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  Catholic, Three, Lovers

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Appologetics”, p.144, Ignatius Press

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• Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

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  Humility, Self, Catholic

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• Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.

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  Spirit, Widowers

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• The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

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  Christian, Life Changing, Evil

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• Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

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  Three, Answers, World

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• No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.

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  Hate, Compassion, Age

  "The Pillars of Unbelief - Machiavelli" by Peter Kreeft, www.peterkreeft.com. January/February 1988.

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• You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

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  God, School, World

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• The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

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  Doe, Fool, Christ

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• The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.

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  Healing, Frustration, Needs

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.17, Ignatius Press

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• If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

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  Biblical, Catholic, Abuse

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• Grey is the devil's favorite color.

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  Color, Devil, Grey

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• We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

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  Mean, Reality, Insane

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.138, Ignatius Press

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• If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

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  Doe, Turns, Ifs

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.72, Ignatius Press

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• We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

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  Heart, Mind, Needs

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• How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

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  Two, Suffering, Matter

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