"The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart."
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Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
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Quotes by Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
"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."
"It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively."
"God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with."
"Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love."
"Love gives you eyes."
"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons."
"The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart."
"God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with."
"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."
"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts."
"Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked."
"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons."
"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of 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."
"The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son."
"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."
"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."
"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."
"Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia."