No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul. Peter Kreeft More Quotes by Peter Kreeft More Quotes From Peter Kreeft 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. Peter Kreeft flower faith love-is The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty. Peter Kreeft poverty bored stuff Philosophy has degenerated into ideology. Peter Kreeft ideology philosophy Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff. Peter Kreeft stuff Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself? Peter Kreeft saint knows way 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). Peter Kreeft fictional-stories easier real Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda. Peter Kreeft hypocrisy practice believe Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive Peter Kreeft alive life-is Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives. Peter Kreeft practice idols prayer If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction. Peter Kreeft law forever jesus The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist. Peter Kreeft scientist poet eye The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map. Peter Kreeft dying animal civilization A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love. Peter Kreeft heart love mean The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe. Peter Kreeft keys faith believe Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's. Peter Kreeft receiver giver two Life is hard, but death is even harder. Peter Kreeft harder life-is-hard life-is If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God. Peter Kreeft good-intentions practice feelings To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part. Peter Kreeft love-is love Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. Peter Kreeft oxymoron apes sleep Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one; the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love. Peter Kreeft flower faith love-is
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