Peter Kreeft Short Quotes

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Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

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Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

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Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

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

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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

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

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

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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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A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

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It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

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Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

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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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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

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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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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

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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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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

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

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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

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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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The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

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No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

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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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In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply space.

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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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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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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.

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