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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b66277 | But to observe our neighbor's faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 07c85dc | Play and mirth is also "necessary for the intercourse of human life" and "to cheer the heart of man". This is why God invented not just water but also wine (Ps 104:15)." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4cc55a3 | not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ad10c43 | The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel's flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5125c64 | The two most popular forms of this are the Oriental form of ignoring real physical evils by creating a mystical inner paradise through yoga and meditation, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0eb15a5 | the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1928254 | From Socrates through Aquinas, reason meant primarily the understanding of the nature of reality, the knowledge of the essences of things. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c3e0fe8 | It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under--do as to over--do what Scripture says. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 671e5d4 | the way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. . | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1a771d9 | He said He was God, in many ways and at many times in the Gospels. If this was not true, that would make Him either an insane fool, if He believed it, or a blasphemous liar, if He didn't. His miracles, like His holiness, His love, and His wisdom, make it impossible to call Him a lunatic or a liar; therefore we must call Him Lord. This is the "Lord, liar, or lunatic" argument made famous by C. S. Lewis and Josh McDowell. It goes back to St. .. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 511fa84 | Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (symbolized by Pharaoh), through the sea (death) and the wilderness (Purgatory) to the promised land (Heaven). | Peter Kreeft | ||
| bf8c07e | Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b1658bb | the will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil--even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own ultimate happiness--and yet choose evil over good, choose what we know is not in our own best interests. We can choose misery over joy if our will, led by our passions, commands our mind to focus on the short-range pleasures and ignore the long.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 699ed79 | The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d82e2f7 | we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| a258dd4 | 5. You can't prove a lot of things that it would be lunacy to deny--for instance, that human reason is trustworthy, that it is not being hypnotized by a demon at every moment. Of course that thought is ridiculous, but can you prove it isn't true? No, because you'd have to use your reason to prove it, and that means trusting the validity of reason, and that is assuming the very thing you're supposed to be proving, "begging the question". If .. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3adf07f | Spirit means essentially two things: 1. The power of thinking--conscious, deliberate, rational understanding. Not sense perception; that's the work of a bodily organ, like the eye. 2. The power of willing and choosing and deliberately loving. Not sensory appetite; that's the work of a bodily function, like hunger. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 521f102 | martyrdom is not only not the same as suicide, it is the polar opposite of suicide, since the suicide loves nothing in life enough to keep living, while the martyr loves something so much that he gives up everything for it, even life. The suicide sees less value and meaning in life than anyone else, while the martyr sees more. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f3d75c1 | Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 520fbe6 | Virtue" used to mean power, might, or energy.)" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 05a88f5 | Jungians call the "collective unconscious"." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| dba5e0f | Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4bbdd0b | We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us: | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0fcd474 | of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b42035b | It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 61ad891 | The meaning of life is to become a saint. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 25a65b8 | since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b7a52c0 | another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1c30d77 | Thus the quintessentially "conservative" dogma of Christ's divinity as the pre-incarnate eternal Logos is the basis for the quintessentially "liberal" hope that good pagans can go to Heaven. He is indeed the one and only Way, Truth, and Life, the only Savior. But when Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, or even honest agnostics give their heart to truth and goodness; when they make the ultimate value and point and purpose and meaning and end of the.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| dd4ec5c | manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 709222e | Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this. Thus all our dignity consists in thought. It is on tho.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 19996db | Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1004401 | There--fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8373061 | Our neighbor and our world are the two roads out of Hell, i.e., out of pure egotism, that God has put in everyone's path to make salvation as easy as possible. Although natural lust misuses neighbors as objects rather than persons, using them rather than loving them; and although natural greed misuses things by loving them rather than using them, unnatural lust and greed are really forms of pride, which is the sin from Hell, not from the fl.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b46afbe | As Buddha said, "All that we are is determined by our thoughts." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 103fe8f | sex for reproduction | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3082965 | Good theology is not the knowledge of theology but the knowledge of God. Bad theology is the theology of the theologian who died and went to Heaven and at the gates of Heaven God offered him the choice between Heaven and a theology lecture on Heaven, and he chose the lecture. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 17102ff | Heart" here refers especially to deep feeling or emotion. "Heart" means not only (1) intuitive reason ("the heart has its reasons") and (2) will" | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d348073 | But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| d4d75c4 | all power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely")." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f62ddf3 | our ego is not God. In fact, it is often wrong, because it is fallen, foolish, and faithless. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0d73dbb | I have never known a day when I didn't learn something new about this game. | Baseball | ||
| c66b473 | Each practical moral virtue has two opposed vices, a "too much" and a "too little" (e.g., cowardice and foolhardiness, or insensitivity and self-indulgence). Theoretical truth also usually contrasts with two opposite errors, e.g., angelism vs. animalism regarding human nature, or deism vs. pantheism in theology, or the denial of free will vs. the denial of predestination. And so too here, with the sacraments. On the one hand, superstition a.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 71edbaa | Sacraments are that literal, that physical. Salvation is very physical. If the woman with the hemorrhage had touched the hem of St. Peter's garment instead of Christ's, her faith alone would not have healed her until it was joined to His body by her touch.--Unless God had willed to heal her that way, of course. God can work outside his sacraments, and often does. There | Peter Kreeft |