Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
Peter KreeftTags: philosophy christianity spirituality violence theology boredom catholicism sloth jesus-shock
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.
Peter KreeftTags: philosophy christianity heaven hell jesus spirituality theology catholicism jesus-christ christ shock jesus-shock meeting-jesus
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
Peter KreeftTags: philosophy christianity god spirituality theology ontology catholicism oxymoron jesus-shock ontological-oxymoron
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
Peter KreeftTags: philosophy christianity pleasure spirituality theology boredom catholicism jesus-shock
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
Peter KreeftTags: philosophy christianity god spirituality crazy theology catholicism reasonable jesus-shock
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.
Peter KreeftTags: truth philosophy christianity god faith spirituality theology catholicism jesus-shock
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.
Peter KreeftTags: humor philosophy christianity apple bible sarcasm spirituality theology catholicism adam-and-eve genesis old-testament original-sin garden-of-eden mac forbidden-fruit macintosh jesus-shock apple-computer-inc steve-jobs laptop
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
Peter KreeftTags: philosophy christianity spirituality heroes theology culture catholicism culture-critique jesus-shock
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.
Peter KreeftTags: inspirational love man woman philosophy christianity heart marriage relationships spirituality theology catholicism woman-s-charm woman-s-strength woman-s-character jesus-shock
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
Peter KreeftTags: inspirational love philosophy christianity god sin salvation jesus spirituality theology cross catholicism christ saved the-cross saved-souls jesus-shock excess-love
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