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7049494 The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart. christianity heart inspirational jesus-shock love man marriage philosophy relationships spirituality theology woman woman-s-character woman-s-charm woman-s-strength catholicism Peter Kreeft
9ce3504 "Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes." christianity culture culture-critique heroes jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
b30bf1f We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. christ christianity cross excess-love god inspirational jesus jesus-shock love philosophy salvation saved saved-souls sin spirituality the-cross theology Peter Kreeft
7c2ee03 By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. apple apple-computer-inc bible catholicism christianity forbidden-fruit garden-of-eden genesis humor jesus-shock laptop mac macintosh old-testament original-sin philosophy sarcasm spirituality steve-jobs theology peter kreeft
4d5ccc8 This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. catholicism christianity god jesus-shock love philosophy secret-of-life self-giving spirituality Peter Kreeft
3674b05 Love gives you eyes. christianity eyes inspirational jesus-shock love philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
49c536d The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. catholicism christianity jesus-shock philosophy pleasure spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
c912b40 Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. catholicism christianity god hearts heaven inspirational jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
e33d581 If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction. christ christianity christlessness christology fundamentalism jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
f3e78e6 Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. catholicism christianity jesus-shock philosophy sloth spirituality theology violence Peter Kreeft
8718c3b Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. christ christianity heaven hell jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock meeting-jesus philosophy shock spirituality theology peter kreeft
e954e23 Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. christianity god jesus-shock protestantism sacraments spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
6e3d889 "Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word." christ christianity god jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy pontius-pilate theology truth Peter Kreeft
40034f7 "Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons." christianity god jesus-shock ontological-oxymoron ontology oxymoron philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
db935bb The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. catholicism christ christianity god jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy son-of-god sonlight spirituality sun sunlight theology Peter Kreeft
0ecf402 It is just as crazy to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. christ christianity crazy crazy-in-love crazy-love god inspirational jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
ee3822f Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all. christianity faith god god-s-grace grace jesus-shock philosophy sacraments theology Peter Kreeft
e2df4db It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. absolutism catholicism christianity god jesus-shock love philosophy reasonable relativism spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
6a2b7e3 Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. beauty catholicism christianity god goodness inspirational jesus-shock love philosophy spirituality theology truth unlimited-beauty unlimited-goodness unlimited-love unlimited-truth Peter Kreeft
7540218 It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. christianity crazy god jesus-shock philosophy reasonable spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
8c218bd Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. catholicism christianity deism deist god jesus-shock philosophy presence-of-god theism theist theology Peter Kreeft
003e291 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. christianity faith god jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology truth Peter Kreeft
344d837 The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life--until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty. catholicism christ christianity francis-of-assisi jesus-shock lady-poverty philosophy saint-francis st-francis-of-assisi theology troubadour Peter Kreeft
faf1c90 No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze. bible catholic christian-philosophy christianity church eucharist jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock kreeft resurrection Peter Kreeft
62a0c1c "If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: "Behold, I make all things new." (Rev. 21:5) I hope you remember that most moving line in the most moving movie ever made, The Passion Of The Christ, when Christ turns to His mother on the way to Calvary, explaining the need for the Cross and the blood and the agony: "See, Mother, I make all things new." I hope you remember that line with your tear ducts, which connect to the heart, as well as with your ears, which connect to the brain. Christ changed every human being he ever met. In fact, He changed history, splitting it open like a coconut and inserting eternity into the split between B.C. and A.D. If anyone claims to have met Him without being changed, he has not met Him at all. When you touch Him, you touch lightning." jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock religion-and-philoshophy Peter Kreeft
378bc68 "No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hate and blood and sin and murder and betrayal and forsakenness and unimaginable agony and death. It is the story of what happens to the most beautiful thing, Perfect Love, when it enters our world: it comes to a Cross, to the crossroad between good and evil. All our most beautiful stories are like the Gospel: they are tragedies first, and then comedies; they are crosses and then crowns. They are crosses because they are conflicts between good and evil. That is the fundamental plot of every great story. To say "that story is beautiful" means "that story resembles the Gospel." If you are bored by the Gospel, that puts no black eye on the Gospel, but on you. Most likely, it means you have never listened to it. You must have heard it, but hearing is far from the same thing as listening..." gospel jesus jesus-shock kreeft Peter Kreeft
25977a0 Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue with you. But if you call it a platitude, I can only pity you, for that means you have never listened to it. jesus jesus-shock peter-kreeft peter kreeft
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