Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 2

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• Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

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  Pain, Simple, Listening To Others

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer”, p.34, Ignatius Press

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• You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

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  God, School, World

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• Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

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  Faith, Rain, Destiny

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.76, Ignatius Press

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• Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

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  Voice, Soul, Voice Of God

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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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• God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

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  Believe, Eye, Giving

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• The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

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  Faith, Block, Inspiration

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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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• God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.

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  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes--life as Vanity, Job--life as Suffering, Song of Songs--life as Love”, p.149, Ignatius Press

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• Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

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  Philosophy, Caring, Moral Absolutism

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• There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

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  Religion, Scientific Method, Way

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• You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

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  Order, Catholic, Praying

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• Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

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  Men, Saint, Tough

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

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  Home, Giving, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.17, Ignatius Press

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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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• The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

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  Christian, Life Changing, Evil

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• When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

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  Real, Self, Giving

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.186, Ignatius Press

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• No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.

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  Hate, Compassion, Age

  "The Pillars of Unbelief - Machiavelli" by Peter Kreeft, www.peterkreeft.com. January/February 1988.

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

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  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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• Grey is the devil's favorite color.

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  Color, Devil, Grey

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• Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

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  Humility, Self, Catholic

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• Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

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  Dog, Serious, Fart

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• If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

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  Catholic, Three, Lovers

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Appologetics”, p.144, Ignatius Press

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• Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

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  Atheist, Typewriters, Years

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.26, Ignatius Press

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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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