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People Quotes by Peter Kreeft

12 People quotes by Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft offers a handful of sharp reflections on what it means to be human. Though the collection is modest, each of the 12 quotes carries his characteristic clarity and wit, making it a handy starter for anyone curious about his take on people.

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

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Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

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

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I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers…

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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…

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Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and…

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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst…

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Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why…

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No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there…

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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…

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God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even…

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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit,…

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The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the…

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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or…

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

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“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we…

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No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil…

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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and…

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The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

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“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books…

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God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our…

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“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws,…

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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

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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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