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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 627edcb | the species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal happiness. Thus, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 254fc42 | Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ab2cea8 | the Lutheran alternative to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation which is called consubstantiation, in which the bread and wine are not changed but added to, so that Christ becomes really present along with them but they remain. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 636bcc2 | God said it, that settles it. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 70c80ea | his total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4d65818 | The transformation of Christ's bodily scars into badges of glory shows us what happens, even in this life, to our souls when we lovingly and trustingly offer our sufferings to Christ and unite them to His. He turns "deformity" into "dignity"." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c7d5f5b | when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . . | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 129f304 | However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e0e615f | democracy is probably intrinsically the best form of government, not because all men are equal in wisdom and virtue, or because all men are so good and wise that they should be given as much power as possible, but because all men are so foolish and wicked that no one should be given very great power over others. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ac6e1d3 | In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 6612932 | All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f874328 | Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 2f11bab | For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 25977a0 | Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue with you. But if you call it a platitude, I can only pity you, for that means you have never listened to it. | jesus jesus-shock peter-kreeft | peter kreeft | |
| 4ad8a10 | Since (1) charity is supernatural, and comes only from the real presence of God in the soul (St. Thomas' paragraph 3), and since (2) all men, and not only Christians, are capable of charity (as has been proved in the paragraph above), it follows that (3) all men are capable of accepting the real presence of God in their souls, even if they have defective or mistaken concepts of God. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9999030 | these relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 522d95d | And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws, or 'society's standards.' A law is enforced only by force. So your 'consensus' really means that some individuals - the lawmakers, whoever they are - the majority of democracy - impose their personal values, their will, on the other's. That's 'judgementalism,' that's imposition. The relativist is accusing t.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ea814b1 | we are participating in His actual work. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 7c0ee24 | As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9c804a6 | The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1ce6fa0 | A great story must have, first of all, a good plot, a great deed, a good work, something worth doing. You cannot write a great story about saving a button on a sweater and nothing more. You can, however, write a great story about saving the world, which is what Tolkien did. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ee63c0f | Like the Fellowship itself, Tolkien's philosophy fights. It conquers what George Orwell called the "smelly little orthodoxies" of political correctness that have twisted and wounded our souls. In other words, it is like the healing herb athelas (see LOTR, p. 193)." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f20800e | Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 2b499e4 | Ai xuong hoa nguc deu co the hat len: Toi da song theo y toi. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3f8a86a | Those who love Tolkien are almost always good people, honest people. Some are Hobbit-like and some are Elvish, but none are Orcish. Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 7df9ae6 | It is often said that we live in a youth culture. It's a lie. We live in an old culture. We idolize youth because we are old. We are tired and bored. Ancient cultures respected the old because those cultures were young. They were not bored. | culture philosophy youth | Peter Kreeft | |
| 48bf82e | Happiness can get boring, because it is the satisfaction of our desires, and we know what we desire. (Can you desire what you do not know?) Joy never gets boring because it transcends our desires and surprises them with gifts. | fulfillment happiness joy transcendence | Peter Kreeft | |
| 5e4eba4 | Doesn't certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don't you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere? | Peter Kreeft | ||
| dcc2032 | There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righteousness and their prayers, by the mass and the gravity of their righteousness reverberating on the walls of the divine mercy. No one but God knows who these righteous are or how many there are. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ee800ad | Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 92c77bc | Light, life, and love parallel the three absolute values of truth, goodness, and beauty, the supreme values of the three parts of the soul; intellect, will, and emotions. God is all truth, goodness, and beauty; everything that is true, good, or beautiful is a reflection of God, a participation in God, a shadow of God. Therefore every choice for or against any truth, any goodness or any beauty is a choice for or against God--whether He is kn.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8135821 | First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 331e1eb | Reason and | socrates | Peter Kreeft | |
| 663c9cc | Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.) | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 5d7fac3 | The arrow of our souls flies to God as the target--unless the arrow is so badly bent that it flies backwards, in which case it pierces the eye of the archer and makes him blind as a Pharisee. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3d7f54b | We see that the universe is full of all sorts of species. Every possible rung on the cosmic hierarchy is filled. There are no gaps. Below us there are intelligent animals, like apes, then less intelligent animals, like fish, then barely intelligent animals, like slugs and TV producers, then plants, then minerals. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f454f5f | 13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliche.) | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f72aad6 | Expect the world to be Heaven, and it will feel like Hell. Expect it to be Purgatory, and it will feel like Heaven. The two most salient facts about Purgatory are pain and hope, suffering and meaning. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b32f279 | each | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 213934d | It's the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f9bacd7 | Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God). The task God sets for us is to need them less and love them more. Instead of looking for ways to manipulate others, we will ask God what our duty is toward them. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 4eab1a8 | Love makes more waves than hate. Wicked men will hate and fear you more for loving them than for hating them. They will quickly forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right. Saints always go into the ghettos, especially the moral ghettos. They make waves. Moses made waves. Jesus made waves. Muhammad made waves. The waves make the garbage come to the surface, and the waves of garbage often drown the saints and.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c1c8a67 | The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints. | inspirational saints | Peter Kreeft | |
| 79fa586 | After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them. | Peter Kreeft |