Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 8

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• Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

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  Unlimited Love, May, Goodness

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• In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

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  Age, Orthodoxy, Rebellion

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.189, Ignatius Press

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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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• The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

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  Eye, Poet, Scientist

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.46, Ignatius Press

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• When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

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  Brother, Doors, Reconcile

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• Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

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  Philosophy, Ideology

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

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  Faith, Song, Inspiration

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.84, Ignatius Press

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• Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

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  Sex, Idols, Stones

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• Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

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  Saint, Way, Knows

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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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• It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

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  Father, Refuse, Offers

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• Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

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  Kings, Prayer, Mean

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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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• 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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• 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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• Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

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  Choices, Catholic, Feelings

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• Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

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  Two, World, Today

  Peter Kreeft (1993). “Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées Edited, Outlined, and Explained”, p.188, Ignatius Press

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• We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

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  Should

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.79, Ignatius Press

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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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• Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

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  Love, Levels, Force

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

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  Stupid, Way, Sin

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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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• Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.

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  Faith, Law, Needs

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.114, 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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• 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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