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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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• The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

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  Faith, Block, Inspiration

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• God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.

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  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes--life as Vanity, Job--life as Suffering, Song of Songs--life as Love”, p.149, Ignatius Press

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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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• We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

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  Wells, Reasoning

  Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.9, InterVarsity Press

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• Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Peter Kreeft (2008). “Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer”, p.28, Ignatius Press

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• Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

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  Men, Saint, Tough

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

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  Believe, Catholic, Ladders

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• Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

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  Water, Grace, Littles

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• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy. Would you not return fearless and singing? What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven? To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

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  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

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  Joy, Feelings, Doe

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• Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

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  Cat, Evil, Needs

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• Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

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  God, Sake

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.134, Ignatius Press

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• How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

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  Faith, Latin, Inspiration

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• The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

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  World, Argument, Speak

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.19, Ignatius Press

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• True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

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  Love, Fall, Opposites

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• When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

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  Silly, Son, Dark

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• An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

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  Listening, World, Care

  Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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• For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

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  Wise, Men, Reality

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

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  Prayer, Love Is, Praying

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• When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

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  Real, Self, Giving

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.186, Ignatius Press

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• Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Believe

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• The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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  Pain, Opposites, Interesting

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• The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

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  Saint, Want, Reason

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• Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.

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  Hate, Opposites, Indifference

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.41, Ignatius Press

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