Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 7

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Different, Looks, Stories

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

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  Believe, Practice, Hypocrisy

  "The Pillars of Unbelief". National Catholic Register, January - February 1988.

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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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• Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

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  Christian, Wings, Government

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

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  Son, Moon, Light

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

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

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  Spiritual, Boredom, Anorexia

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• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

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  Giving, Want, Sun

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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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• 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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• Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

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  Faith, Rough Times, Eternity

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.63, Ignatius Press

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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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• Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

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  Prayer, Catholic, Dinner

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Thinking, Practice, People

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• Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

  Peter Kreeft

  Absolutism, Want, Morality

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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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• You cannot be in love with love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Catholic

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