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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 26ee5ef | It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5f8adb5 | Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 943edd4 | the instinct Rousseau found in himself and followed: the instinct to deceive, rob, and seduce rich ladies and to abandon his own children. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 23334ee | What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 071becc | In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 7896534 | Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 7fa77f8 | Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 7b76abe | other little wooden fences can come down too. How? When? God only knows. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 62c4bac | We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ace3780 | Our faith here can only be in God, not in our faith (that's presumption). He will never abandon us, but we can abandon Him. That's why we must be vigilant. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| aa4d885 | Ancient ethics always dealt with three questions. Modern ethics usually deals with only one, or at the most two. The three questions are like the three things a fleet of ships is told by its sailing orders. (The metaphor is from C. S. Lewis.) First, the ships must know how to avoid bumping into each other. This is social ethics, and modern as well as ancient ethicists deal with it. Second, they must know how to stay shipshape and avoid sink.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| cb00101 | St. Augustine says, "If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| fd482e8 | Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. "The course of true love never did run smooth." Kindness--mere kindness--cannot tolerate suffering. Love can." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| a678bf3 | Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| a2cb0e4 | Suffering together builds togetherness, and if togetherness is more important for us and for our joy than freedom from suffering is, then God is good to allow this suffering. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b92aefa | You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of Heaven when you die. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5fdf949 | Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we must be either sinners who think we are saints, or saints who know we are sinners. Even | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5ba6fbf | Suppose the god, the goal of progress, is changing. Then progress becomes impossible. How could we progress toward a goal that keeps receding? How could a runner make progress toward a finish line if someone kept moving it as he ran? | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e1fee89 | The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c41e8b0 | I often thought of comparing life to a dream, because death always seemed to be an awakening. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e53a2cc | bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When | Peter Kreeft | ||
| be4c0e0 | One of Beethoven's biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d98882a | Modern spirituality has no hell, no doctrine, no substance. It is about feeling. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7f36ebc | Some say that to the gods we are like flies that boys idly swat on a summer day. Others say that not a feather from a sparrow falls to the ground without the will of the Heavenly Father." Those are the only two options." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c7737bc | The family that fights together stays together. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5e0872a | For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern mind, the cardinal problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 717aff9 | Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d0da51e | Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ad54ee3 | All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 337d1f9 | Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers--which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1b1a183 | Love is supposed to bring us out of the dark prison of the "my will be done" ego into the joys of "thy will be done", both horizontally and vertically, toward both the human and the divine Other." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 57fe3dd | It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 437e11d | murder and adultery are great crimes. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0a03486 | When selling, givers ask questions in a way that conveys the desire to help customers, not take advantage of them. When persuading and negotiating, givers speak tentatively and seek advice because they truly value the ideas and viewpoints of others. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| a8f1cbf | But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means "You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time to kill", while a murder may mean "You are important and formidable and you are my enemy, and thus I must kill you." That can be a compliment, compared to a sneer." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 247d186 | For instance, it is a "hate crime" to quote certain politically incorrect verses from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in any public arena.)" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4635495 | There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e47c69f | Paradoxically, sloth reigns most in our technologically busy world where leisure has been abolished and life has been programmed and scheduled down to the last detail. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ec9764f | If the unhappiness of the wicked angels comes at length to an end, the happiness of the good will also come to an end, which is inadmissible. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6788387 | that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ccb47c9 | Unworthy" does not mean "undeserving", for we are all undeserving! It means "incapable of receiving." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c3e61e2 | Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0ae7b90 | De Caussade makes this matter of duty very simple, too, as he makes everything simple: "We have two duties to fulfill: we must actively seek to carry God's will into effect and passively accept all that his will sends us" (p. 73). That's all. That's it." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5055bd6 | Earthly life is full of soporifics, anaesthetics, pain-dullers. In fact, compared with Purgatory our whole life on earth will appear to have been life only half awake. In Purgatory we will be fully awake, fully sensitive, and fully cognizant of the evil of all of our sins. Our clear knowledge of God's brightness and beauty will make our clear knowledge of our own darkness and ugliness more painful than any similar light that shows up our mo.. | Peter Kreeft |