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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ecd0bfc | St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence; | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 52e37fe | The second reason was to make public and visible an invisible spiritual reality. This is the purpose of all the sacraments. Indeed, it is the fundamental purpose of matter itself. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 498f61d | Even biologists rank species in a hierarchical order. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 28d0768 | God judges justly. "All who sinned without [knowing] the [Mosaic] law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law" (Rom 2:12). Even pagans show "that what the law requires is written on their hearts" (Rom 2:15). If we honestly consult our hearts, we will find two truths: that we know what we ought to do and be, and that we fail to do and be that. Fundamentalists, faithful to the clear on.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e890f74 | It is an a fortiori argument: if even the veneration of a beloved father's relics after he dies is a good thing, how much more the veneration of a saint's? | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3fd79f6 | the doctrine of anamnesis: that all learning-that is, all learning of eternal truths-is really a remembering, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0a05458 | the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6c5a5cf | ora et labora, prayer and work. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| fe6b4cd | Many saints were made out of passionate sinners--the angry, the hating, the lustful, the cynical; but none were ever made out of the slothful. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c7e75b4 | Scholastics called the "irascible" (averting) and "concupiscible" (attracting) emotions." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1f85650 | Visiting with other human beings may be one of the most ancient healing tonics. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 1b34dcf | That's why contraception is wrong by nature: it's a limit, a "Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won't give each other Everything")" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 26e3e6d | They are our bodyguards and soulguards. But not as servants or pets. If anything, we are like pets to them. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0a088e3 | desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection--indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 078fd40 | Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 307073a | In art, the world conforms to the creative idea; in science, the idea conforms to the world. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5ce2b15 | Dulia is like a high but finite number; hyperdulia is like the highest number out of a finite number of finite numbers; latria is like infinity. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 99d5074 | Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4c42667 | The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c720384 | angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 22366ce | More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 2e2a081 | the medieval idea that angels were required to move the heavenly bodies. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9d70ddb | Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia--that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another--but not the other half--that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 23d991d | Aristotle also believed that a vacuum was impossible. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3642fef | Physical emotions are moved by chemicals, nerve endings, weather, digestion, hormones, and a thousand other things in the body or the physical world. Animals can't love without physical emotion. Angels can't love with physical emotion. We can love with or without physical emotion. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 86e7ee5 | 2. Greed, or acquisitive desire. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 389c100 | 8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 28c6d8d | It's out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9b1bac8 | essential form | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0ad095f | The root reason for this is the denial of the human essence, the human equality, the human family--judging people's worth only by how efficiently or intelligently or quickly they function. This is confusing the essence with the nonessential. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0fac933 | are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4b2757f | Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8a1f1ab | Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 16c0e3e | John's privilege among prophets is somewhat analogous to Mary's privilege among women. No prophet is closer to Christ than John. Christ did not call him the greatest of all the prophets and more than a prophet (Mt 11:9) because he was more complete in his eloquence, his wisdom, or even his sanctity, than any other prophet, but because he completed the whole era of prophets, the Old Law, or Old Covenant, in introducing Christ to the world. A.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ceab948 | Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e185d8d | A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9f412e0 | The root of pride is found to consist in man not being in some way subject to God and His rule. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| df415e0 | I will not serve"--" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1765551 | Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: "I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you." "Thy will be done" is the essential prayer of the saint; "my will be done" is the essential demand of the sinner." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8568188 | Of any tradition outside of our Constitution, that is our tradition, baseball. | Baseball | ||
| 619eb62 | Yes, organized religion is a crutch. You mean you didn't know that you are a cripple? If you don't know that, then you are a very serious cripple indeed, mentally and spiritually. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0679624 | inchoate | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 96f6843 | When God changed someone's name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 66e1823 | Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things." | Peter Kreeft |