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• If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

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  Jesus, Real, Mets

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• Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

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  Voice, Soul, Voice Of God

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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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  Faith, Rain, Destiny

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.76, Ignatius Press

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• This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

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• God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

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  Believe, Eye, Giving

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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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  Faith, Believe, Keys

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.31, Ignatius Press

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• Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

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  Atheist, Powerful, Atheism

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• Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

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  Life Changing, Liars, Lying

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• God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

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  Writing, Choices, Stories

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• Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

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  Saint, Wimps, Made

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• Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

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  Believe, Practice, Hypocrisy

  "The Pillars of Unbelief". National Catholic Register, January - February 1988.

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• The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

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  Evil, Answers, Paper

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• It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

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  Evil, Justice, Heroism

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.217, Ignatius Press

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• We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

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  Jesus, Excess, Lack Of Love

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• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

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  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

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• By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Icons

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• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

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  Giving, Want, Sun

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• The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.

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  Squinting, Cynical, Vision

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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.

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  Prayer, Idols, Practice

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

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• Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

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  Thinking, Saint, Knows

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• The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

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  Christian, Suffering, Worst

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• Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

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  God, Wise, Symphony

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.14, Ignatius Press

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• No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

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  Cheating, Lying, Divorce

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• The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.159, Ignatius Press

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