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• If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

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  Rain, Saint, Want

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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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• 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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• The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

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  Things In Life, Knowing, Six

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• Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

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  Different, Looks, Stories

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• Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

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  Religious, Real, Book

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Fire

  Peter Kreeft (1994). “C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on The Abolition of Man”, p.90, Ignatius Press

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• The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

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  Prayer, Moving, Our World

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• Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

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  Philosophy, Long, Religion

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• Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

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  Love, Sin

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• Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one; the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.

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  Faith, Flower, Love Is

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.280, Ignatius Press

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• Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.

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  Faith, Flower, Love Is

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.41, Ignatius Press

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• Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

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  Love, Kindness, Suffering

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• We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

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  Pay, Sin, Bargains

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven: But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.145, Ignatius Press

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• The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

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  God, Wrath, Fool

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• Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

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  Ideas, Elitist, Persons

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• Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

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  Jesus, Opposites, Joy

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• If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

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  Jesus, Law, Forever

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• Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.

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  Jesus, Want, Honest

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• All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Together Again

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• Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.

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  Psych, Two, Historical

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

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• Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

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  Fire, Catholic, Together

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• Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the Creator, Who touches everything and everyone]... When we adore, we plug into infinite dynamism and power. Adoration is more powerful for construction than nuclear bombs are for destruction

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  Powerful, Our World, Church

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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.

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  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

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  Believe, People, Absolutism

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