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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f19e61 | As C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 917566d | We too can love with the will even when we do not have loving emotions or feelings. We make this distinction toward ourselves quite easily, so we should be able to do it toward others too when necessary. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0e3aef2 | Christ deliberately hides Himself, disguises Himself, gives no physical sign of His Real Presence in the Eucharist, for a crucially important purpose: to test and elicit and strengthen our faith. If we saw miraculous signs in every Eucharist, or if the Eucharistic bread and wine had no taste, like other bread and wine, or even if we felt unique feelings each time we received the Eucharist, our faith would be less strong because it would hav.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 527e25d | war between paralyzed telepaths. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0d4d447 | The soul is the form of the body and the body is the matter of the soul, somewhat as the meaning of a book is its form or soul and the words are its matter or body. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| cd5dcad | His divinity existed without His humanity before the Incarnation, but ever since the Incarnation His humanity is joined forever to His divinity. His Ascension was not the undoing of His Incarnation. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c685ccd | you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8624558 | Heidegger says that "the fundamental question of metaphysics" is "why is there anything at all rather than nothing?" The fundamental question is not, as Plato thought, "what" a thing is (every Platonic dialogue is about that, about an essence, a definition, a concept, such as justice or piety or learning) but why it exists, why anything exists. Plato never asked that ultimate question. And the answer is God." -- | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e3fd758 | Even if it were within her legal right and authority, it would harm more than help. It might be argued that it is like capital punishment today: the state has the right to use it if necessary, but since it is no longer necessary, it would do more public harm than good in the current war against the culture of death. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5487ffa | our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ea7d5b2 | Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5d6393c | It is significant that in most languages there is a single word for the essential virtue regarding both of these two relationships, which are the only two relationships where we cannot pay all that is owed. The word is "piety" (pietas). It means honor to both ancestors and God, the authors of our life." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 94e4521 | What I find most sustaining is what I loved as a girl: lying down on my back and looking at the sky. That is my first memory and I hope it is my last. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 10435fa | The claims the Catholic Church makes are a little like the claims Christ makes: so superhuman that it becomes impossible to take a comfortable, middle-of-the-road attitude toward them, unless we are either sleeping or dishonest. The man who claimed to be God is either God or a lunatic and blasphemer. And the Church that claims to be the body of the God-man, with divine authority to teach infallibly, to forgive sins, to make Christ | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5f4bf7e | Because CPR resuscitates thousands today, it is now a commonly known "NDE" or near--death experience, that at the moment of death your whole life passes before you in an instant, with perfect clarity; and in this "life review" everything is seen truly, nothing is covered up. God is apparently sharing a foretaste of His own vision of our life with us, as He will do completely in Purgatory and / or Heaven; and repented and forgiven sins are p.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 79dade8 | The purpose of Purgatory is to completely internalize, in your own individual soul, what Christ has completely accomplished in objective reality in His Passion. Nothing | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3d72004 | All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| fd4fe53 | In a sense "all the way to Heaven is Heaven" (St. Catherine)." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d0e4988 | Aristotelian hylomorphic anthropology of soul and body as form and matter of a single substance, as distinct from a Platonic or Cartesian two-substance dualism, or simple materialism or simple immaterialism or spiritualism. All three alternatives to Aristotelian-Thomistic hylomorphism are logically problematic as well as not in accord with our experience. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 533c922 | Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e1cb4db | Socrates' point is that there are only two kinds of people in this world: the wise, who know they are fools, and fools, who think they are wise. Wisdom, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4efed1f | When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| a770093 | God's Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the "dry" times, not the "high" times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 166fd7a | The Church also seems to be in the social service business, the counseling business, the fundraising business, the daycare business-dozens of the same worthy businesses the secular world is also in. Why? What justifies these things? The Church's ultimate end for all these things is different from the world's end; it is salvation. This is its distinctive "product." Why put out a product that is just the same as other compa- vies' products al.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d8b433b | The idea of resolving conflicts by killing people (which is what war is) is not a just thing, a just idea. In that sense there is no such thing as "just war". But to wage a given war may be a just action." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e85aa29 | why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious: | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c16fd94 | Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Therese said, on her deathbed, "Everything is grace." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| a58b7a0 | He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 213111c | And since perfected souls will be incapable of envy, all will rejoice in their lesser level of brightness, because it will be exactly what God wills for the common good; and all will identify with that common good as the fulfillment of their individual good, rather than a rival to it, as we fools do now. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3f51cb8 | Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 98ff327 | Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0d7eb11 | To a humble mind nothing is more astonishing than to hear its own excellence. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| eda5971 | If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which would be a lie. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| beb7f62 | The Exodus also = salvation; Egypt = sin; Pharoah = Satan; Moses = Christ; the Jews = the Church; the Red Sea = death; the wilderness = Purgatory; the Old Law = the New Law; the gospel; the old Mount (Sinai) = the new mount from which Jesus preached His "sermon on the mount" (Mt 5-7); and the Promised Land = Heaven. The "=" is not mathematical but symbolic." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3732b07 | sacramentally present at Mass--this Church is either God 's own or it is the devil's own. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 46ce0cd | Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular--they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 2808884 | Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| fc8532d | is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He | Peter Kreeft | ||
| bf0d2e8 | Here is what they got out of their hoax. Their friends and families scorned them. Their social standing, possessions, and political privileges were stolen from them by both Jews and Romans. They were persecuted, imprisoned, whipped, tortured, exiled, crucified, eaten by lions, and cut to pieces by gladiators. So some silly Jews invented the whole elaborate, incredible lie of Christianity for absolutely no reason, and millions of Gentiles be.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ba2fa54 | What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final meaning of our daily work. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d42b736 | God, I don't know whether you exist or not. Maybe I'm praying to nobody, but maybe I'm praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only the Truth, whatever it is. If you are the Truth, here I am, ready and willing to follow you wherever you lead. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d3b8dae | KANT: The traditional religious foundation for morality may be ontologically stronger, but I say it is not logically or epistemologically stronger. It cannot be proved by speculative, theoretical reason. It cannot be known with certainty. I wanted to construct an absolute and certain ethics; that's why I confined myself to the parameters of reason alone--and of practical reason alone, for I believe that practical reason can do much more tha.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8b0bc70 | Every human soul craves "the good, the true, and the beautiful" absolutely and without limit. And it is precisely about these three most fundamental values that the gap is the widest. Ordinary people still believe in a real morality, a real difference between good and evil; and in objective truth and the possibility of knowing it; and in the superiority of beauty over ugliness. But our educators, or "experts" (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus calls.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 695a70c | If a government is built on the principle of benevolence similar to that of a father towards his children, that is, a paternal government . . . , in which subjects are treated like children who have not yet come of age and who cannot distinguish what is truly beneficial from what is harmful for them . . . this is the greatest despotism imaginable. . . . Not a paternal but a patriotic government . . . is the only government conceivable for h.. | Peter Kreeft |