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Peter John Kreeft (/kreɪft/; born 16 March 1937 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God."

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The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

Christ, Compelling, Doe, Exist, Fool

Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.

Eating, Faith, Flower, Love Is, Rising, Tree

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Device, Icons, Inspirational, Motivational, Way, Wonder

No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil and if there is eternity, there can be hell. If it is intellectually dishonest to disbelieve in evil just because it is shocking and uncomfortable, it is the same with hell. Reality has hard corners, surprises, and terrible dangers in it. We desperately need a true road map, not nice feelings, if we are to get home. It is true, as people often say, that "hell just feels unreal, impossible. " Yes. So does Auschwitz. So does Calvary.

Desperately, Evil, Feels, Home, Nice, Reality

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

Reason, Saint, Want, Wholly

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

Abstractions, Easier, Fictional, Fictional Stories, Real

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Deserves, Goodness, May, Truth, Unlimited, Unlimited Love

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Eternal Happiness, Life, Opportunity, Purpose, Test, Tests

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

Fact, Facts, God, God Love, Gods Will, Love

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Giving, Happiness, Identity, Sacrifice, Secret, Self

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

Hard, Learn, Sin, Stupid, Way

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Become, Feminist, Feminists, Pupils, Saint

The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

God, Human, Relative, Soul, Spiritual, Versa

Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be. " It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.

Believe, Create, Creative, Faith, Fiat, Inspiration

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

Believe, Devil, Lie, Lying, Truth

God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light.

Earth, God, Life Changing, Morning, Receives, Sense

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Prayer, Catholic, Dinner, Ten, Thanksgiving

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

Hell, Today, Two, Widest, World

It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

Heretics, Mistake, Modernist, Same, Stupid, Thinking

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

Eloquent, Faith, Inspiration, Science, Song

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