Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 7

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• An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

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  Mean, Mind, Ends

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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 womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

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  Doe, World, Womb

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• Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

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  Attitude, Indifference

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• Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

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  Saint, World, Sin

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• A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

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  Mind, Suffering, Scandal

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• It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

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  Real, Fictional Stories, Easier

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Two

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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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• There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

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  Love, Giving, Challenges

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.42, Ignatius Press

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• The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

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  Opposites, Atheism, Theism

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• In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

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  Lying, Believe, Devil

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.113, Ignatius Press

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• Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

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  Reason, Incarnation, Crucifixion

  Peter Kreeft (2001). “Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church”

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• Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.

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  Clever, Believe, Light

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

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  Simple, Achievement, Insane

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• Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

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  Sex, Divorce, Responsibility

  Peter Kreeft (2002). “Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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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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• Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.

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  Teaching, Matter, May

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.151, Ignatius Press

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• God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Justice

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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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• Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

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  Atheist, Arrogant, Debate

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

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  Prayer, Heart, Transformation

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• God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

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  God, Destiny, Eternity

  Peter Kreeft (2004). “The God who Loves You: "love Divine, All Loves Excelling"”, p.149, Ignatius Press

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• You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

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  Evil, Ego, Twins

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• Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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  Spiritual, Boredom, Anorexia

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