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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c98f750 | Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 60e9a16 | When we use the prayers of the Church, we use the greatest prayers ever written, the words and sentiments of great saints and hymn writers and liturgists. We do this rightly, because God deserves the best, and these prayers are the best. They were composed by other people, but we make them our own when we pray them, like a lover reciting a sonnet by Shakespeare to his beloved. It is Shakespeare's gift: Shakespeare gave it to him, and now he.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6e5e3cb | Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 14e5e42 | The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6cdafdd | God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e464816 | Revelations | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 68798f2 | St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 256fe55 | We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 555232c | We pray to obey God, not to "play God". We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to "let God be God". Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt 7:7)." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 02b5c12 | we catch the good infection of Godliness by contact. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 412f319 | Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9311e6a | For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich! | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 22627f9 | Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8cafc27 | it is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5e7317a | So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d586427 | The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 6f18027 | If human life becomes cheapened, it becomes cheapened at both ends. Parents are killed, by euthanasia, when they become a "burden" to their children; and children are killed, by abortion, when they become a "burden" to their parents. All societies in history would regard these two sins as two of the most heartless and inhuman possible sins. To kill your parents is to kill yourself, your own past; and to kill your children is to kill yoursel.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e87c9eb | To undo a contradiction, make a distinction. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b844d79 | Socrates: So was I. Bertha: Are you saying you're as great as him, then? Socrates: No, no, on the contrary, I'm assuming just the opposite! | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d9cf00b | If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 921c065 | we forgive those who trespass | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3596ffb | It's like a government agency that really works. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b3a45b1 | The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3f39c55 | 1) Physical gravity is a physical form of love. That little rock is falling because it's in love with the big rock called the earth. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 000a02a | It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of the imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e1eb6c5 | a man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 91ae95e | nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ff64e44 | Right Response to Reality--the Three R's--is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ec0d6a2 | God's solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father's love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that's the heart of the Christian story. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 188a9e9 | 4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6145796 | Reason is His voice, His interior prophet, in our souls. We call that prophet conscience. (St. Thomas used two terms for it: "synderesis" was the awareness of its reality and truth and authority and rules, and "conscience" was the application of it. We use "conscience" for both.) Conscience is essentially the power of reason to know good and evil." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 24711b8 | Tempting is not forcing. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0c4ea2f | Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 964239f | The distinction between the natural and the supernatural is a distinction between two abstract aspects, not two concrete things. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1fdcfe2 | Our attempts at charity without God, our attempts at charity before faith and hope, all fail because they are based on ourselves and our own false sufficiency and our own righteousness as their foundation and cause. But the charity that comes after faith is God's own work in and through us, and is part of our own salvation. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8832610 | Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| df26f89 | T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5). | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 25bce8a | What the Church is sent apostolically to do is to make saints, i.e., to make humans completely human. This phrase, completely human, is often misused today to mean its exact opposite, to reduce the Church's supernatural task to a merely natural one. But the Church betrays her mission and her Lord if she lets psychologists and sociologists who do not know Christ as her source dictate her end. We are sent to be completely human as Christ was,.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 73f545a | to dispense from the laws. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8b69100 | the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . . | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 904fe3b | fiat!")" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f0a5c13 | Hence man never desires infinite meat, or infinite drink. . . . But non-natural concupiscence is altogether infinite . . . Hence he that desires riches, may desire to be rich not up to a certain limit but to be simply as rich as possible (I-II,30,4). | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e0489cd | Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e976c2f | Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will. | Peter Kreeft |