Peter Kreeft Quotes

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• Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
• Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
• God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.
• 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…
• 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…
• A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
• 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…
• The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best…
• If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
• The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this…
• The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there…
• Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
• The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of…
• 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…
• Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
• The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.
• Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
• Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
• Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
• We are artists, because God is.

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