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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ff3582c | The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor. | Baseball | ||
| e0972be | Given good eyes and average physical strength, any boy can learn to bat. | Baseball | ||
| 4f3d926 | When in doubt, look at the Lord. Lift up your eyes (Numbers 21:4-9). That will be something it will take all your life to master, but what better time to start than now? Still, you can't imagine being an invited worshiper of God. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d963b9e | Harold Keith, Sports and Games (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1941), p. 17 | Baseball | ||
| 7ab97cf | Therefore the prayers we offer in the Mass for the world are far more powerful than the prayers we offer outside the Mass, even if the prayers we offer outside the Mass are the same prayers, and even if there are more of them, and even if they are offered for the same people, or for more people, and even if they are offered with the same faith and devotion on our part, or even with a little more faith and devotion on our part. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0e14925 | We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d9e60ea | Because" is ambiguous. It could mean only a subjective motive ("Because I'm paranoid, I believe that man is going to kill me"), or it could mean an objective reason ("Because he's pointing a gun at me and squeezing the trigger, I believe that man is going to kill me"). "We believe in angels because we seek security" is only a subjective, psychological motive. "We believe in angels because God has revealed to us in the Bible that they exist".. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| faa57fc | The only honest reason for anyone ever to believe anything is that it is true, that it is really there. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 80d5cec | The fifties were far from utopia, but we all know they were significantly happier than today. At this point someone will respond by quoting the ultimate law of life: "Ah, but you can't turn back the clock. You can't go home again. You can't stop progress." Yes, you can. This 'ultimate law' is a lie. ...We can stop this false god Progress. But instead we have stopped real progress. Real progress means getting closer to our goal. And the goal.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 177918b | You will have noticed by this time, of course, that St. Thomas almost always solves a dilemma by making a distinction. That is not a quirk of his personality or even of his method, but a reflection of the nature of reality. Reality is complex: it has many dimensions, "there are more things in Heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your [always-simplistic and abstracted] philosophy" (Hamlet). This is the source of nearly all dilemmas and ap.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 7538885 | Article 10: Whether symbolic logic is superior to Aristotelian logic for philosophizing? Objection 1 : It seems that it is, for it is a modern development, and would not have become popular if it were not superior. In fact, 99% of all formal logic textbooks in print today use symbolic rather than Aristotelian logic. Objection 2: It is as superior in efficiency to Aristotelian logic as Arabic numerals to Roman numerals, or a computer to an.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| a76bbf8 | Belief in angels makes an even bigger difference if you believe in God and pray, because your prayers to God to send angel help will be answered. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 301d05a | Some philosophers | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5f0a8d2 | are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| da90cfd | Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 50c1566 | The most serious religious objection to Purgatory, on the part of Protestants, is that the anticipation of the pains of Purgatory detracts from a happy death ("blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord"--Rev 14:13). But that is like saying that the pains of labor detract from the joy of childbirth. Deferred happiness is still happiness. In" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 733b8e6 | Seek and you shall find" does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that which God is: "God is agape." That is why all who seek it find it. De Caussade says: "If you search for this kingdom where God alone rules, you can be quite sure you will find it" (p. 112)." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8ef3ef6 | Humans are the lowest (least intelligent) of spirits and the highest (most intelligent) of animals. We are rational animals, incarnate minds, the smartest of animals and the stupidest of spirits: | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0cb8a0c | Kennedy: You mean it's not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life's red ink certainly outweighed the black. Kennedy: | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 024a395 | Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption? | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d544187 | Kamo god da ides, s tobom ide i tvoj andeo cuvar. Prije nego sto se spremas nekamo ici, razmisli je li to mjesto prikladno za jednoga andela. | angels-and-demons catholicism christianity | Peter Kreeft | |
| 5691041 | St. Thomas thus detects a primary source of presumption in seeking genuinely good things, like human happiness on earth, as if we did not need divine grace to attain them; and in the hope that we can obtain God's pardon and mercy without our confessing and repenting of sin. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| cb82446 | a God without wrath saves a man without sin by mercy without judgment for a Heaven without a Hell through a Christ without a cross. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c050608 | See C. S. Lewis' essay "Meditation in a Toolshed" for this crucial distinction.) The" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8e659c6 | the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself; | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 01981df | The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3709f00 | The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 42c3a10 | A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6309c6e | shows how fruitful analogies can be--not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 963395f | Becoming saints is the meaning of life. It is why we exist. It is why God created us. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9c4199c | But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0a641dc | Zabuna o odnosu izmedu poimanja osobe i covjeka moze uzrokovati golemu stetu. Americki Vrhovni sud dvaput je pokazao da mu je prijeko potrebna lekcija iz filozofije jer ne shvaca da ljudska bica spadaju pod osobe, a ne obrnuto, da su ljudska bica osobe te kao takve posjeduju temeljna ljudska prava. Dred Scott proglasio je crnce nepotpunim osobama opravdavsi tako ropstvo i provodeci povratak odbjeglih robova kao da se radi o vlasnistvu, a .. | christianity philosophy pro-life unborn-child | Peter Kreeft | |
| 39f2bee | The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| bedc6b4 | Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 684c779 | When I ask my "Catholic" students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3cbd85c | He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5f154bd | wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.) | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 35b54af | U svakom podrucju zivota, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokusavati biti originalan i reci istinu onako kako je vidis. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 53556b5 | If our faith rests on God's veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle? | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 26a878e | Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17). | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6acc5af | For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 334c8de | His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 884295c | he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e4e24cd | Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin"." | Peter Kreeft |