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Peter Kreeft (born March 16 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is a regular contributor to several Christian publications and is the author of over 45 books.
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Half of all the women in the world are beautiful to men, nearly all are beautiful when they smile, and all are beautiful all the time to God.
Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
“Humility is thinking less about yourself, not thinking less of yourself.”
Back to Virtue (1992)
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.
… condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.
At exactly the time when the fatal knowledge of how to destroy the entire human race has fallen forever into our hands, the knowledge of morality has fallen out.
Back to Virtue (1992)
[Kreeft calls the word 'interesting':] "that all-purpose meaningless euphemism."
The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings (2005)
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.
The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings (2005)
Christ's divinity and lordship over one's life is the distinctive, essential faith of Christians: no non-Christian believes that (if he did, he would be a Christian), and all Christians believe it (if they do not, they are not Christians).
Love unifies by individuating and individuates by unifying. At what moment do lovers come into the most perfect possession of themselves as individuals if not when they are most lost in each other? Self, is given up, but "he who loses his self will find it." [Matthew 16:25]
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