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• If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

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  Real, Evil, Choices

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.55, Ignatius Press

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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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• I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

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  Thinking, Practice, People

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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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• Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

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  God, Light, Color

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.74, Ignatius Press

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• If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

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  Believe, Games, Toys

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist”, p.59, Ignatius Press

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• The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

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  Love, Powerful, Law

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.137, 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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• Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.

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  Philosophy, Philosopher, Bertha

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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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• Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

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  Pride, Looks, Down And

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

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  Attitude, Mind, Modern

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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• If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

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  If There Is A God, Maps, Virtue

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.9, Ignatius Press

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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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• Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

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  Christian, Art, Media

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• Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

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  Hate, War, Cancer

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.45, Ignatius Press

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• Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

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  Suffering, Christ, Values

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• Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

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  Atheist, Lying, Heart

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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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• A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is higher than anyone else in the world. A saint is the real mountain climber. A saint is also lower than anyone else in the world. As with water, he flows to the lowest places - like Calcutta.

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  Faith, Husband, Real

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• Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

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  Heart, Trying, Holes

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• God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

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  God, Running, Light

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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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• 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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• Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.

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  Life, Humanity, Doe

  "Love". Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics, www.peterkreeft.com. 1988.

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