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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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• The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for the Kingdom to come, and we are commanded to pray and work for that coming, that growth, even if we do not yet see the fruits, or even the blossoms, or even the leaves...

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  Faith, Inspiration, Growth

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• The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.

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  Baseball, Self, Games

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.48, Ignatius Press

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• Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

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  Stuff

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• To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".

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  Jesus, Long, Done

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• Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

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  Thinking, Identity, Overcoming

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.137, Ignatius Press

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• When I think how much my Protestant brothers and sisters are missing in not having Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist; when I kneel before the Eucharist and realize I am as truly in Christ's presence as the apostles were but that my Protestant brothers and sisters don't know that, don't believe that - I at first feel a terrible gap between myself and them. What a tremendous thing they are missing!

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  Brother, Real, Believe

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.159, Ignatius Press

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• But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.

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  Love, Stupid, Feelings

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• This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself, while hate is not in God but is in Satan. If we do not clearly distinguish anger from hatred, then we do not clearly distinguish God from Satan!

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  Hate, Hatred, Reason Why

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.85, Ignatius Press

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• Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

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  Dog, Angel, Ostriches

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

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  Responsibility, Men, Privilege

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• Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Soul

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.50, Ignatius Press

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• No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil and if there is eternity, there can be hell. If it is intellectually dishonest to disbelieve in evil just because it is shocking and uncomfortable, it is the same with hell. Reality has hard corners, surprises, and terrible dangers in it. We desperately need a true road map, not nice feelings, if we are to get home. It is true, as people often say, that "hell just feels unreal, impossible." Yes. So does Auschwitz. So does Calvary.

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  Nice, Home, Reality

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Appologetics”, p.44, Ignatius Press

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• Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

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  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

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  Crazy, Shakes, Reasonable

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• To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.

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  God, God's Love

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.84, Ignatius Press

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• Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

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  Evil, Judgement, Doe

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• Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

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  Love, Scripture, Realizing

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.108, Ignatius Press

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• Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

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  Giving, Bologna, Helping

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• When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

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  God, Believe, Lovers

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• If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

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  Practice, Feelings, Good Intentions

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.43, Ignatius Press

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• If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

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  Welcome, Honest, Ifs

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• When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

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  Wise, Dog, Men

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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.

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  Love, Love Is

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

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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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