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 KreeftTag: inspirational love philosophy christianity god sin salvation jesus spirituality theology cross catholicism christ saved the-cross saved-souls jesus-shock excess-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.
Peter KreeftTag: art philosophy christianity god sun jesus spirituality theology catholicism jesus-christ christ sunlight son-of-god jesus-shock sonlight
The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic, and this even though they loathed Clinton, because the battle against religious and ethnic dictatorship in the Balkans took precedence. This, by the way, was partly a battle to save Muslims from Catholic and Christian Orthodox killers. That impressed me. The neo-cons also took the view, quite early on, that coexistence with Saddam Hussein was impossible as well as undesirable. They were dead right about that. They had furthermore been thinking about the menace of jihadism when most people were half-asleep.
And then I have to say that I was rather struck by the way that the Weekly Standard and its associated voices took the decision to get rid of Trent Lott earlier this year, thus removing an embarrassment as well as a disgrace from the political scene. And their arguments were on points of principle, not 'perception.' I liked their ruthlessness here, and their seriousness, at a time when much of the liberal Left is not even seriously wrong, but frivolously wrong, and babbles without any sense of responsibility. (I mean, have you read their sub-Brechtian stuff on Halliburton....?) And revolution from above, in some states and cases, is—as I wrote in my book A Long Short War—often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.
Tag: politics christianity war religion liberalism revolution persecution dictatorship islam catholicism ethnicity bertolt-brecht bill-clinton leftism jihad halliburton saddam-hussein bosnia bosnian-war balkans kosovo kosovo-war slobodan-milosevic neoconservatism a-long-short-war persecution-of-muslims the-weekly-standard trent-lott
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational philosophy christianity god heaven spirituality theology boredom catholicism hearts jesus-shock
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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity theology boredom catholicism christ jesus-shock francis-of-assisi lady-poverty saint-francis st-francis-of-assisi troubadour
Love gives you eyes.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational love philosophy christianity spirituality theology eyes catholicism jesus-shock
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
Peter KreeftTag: love philosophy christianity god spirituality theology catholicism absolute relativism reasonable absolutism jesus-shock
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational philosophy christianity god jesus spirituality crazy theology catholicism jesus-christ christ crazy-love jesus-shock crazy-in-love
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational truth love beauty philosophy christianity god goodness spirituality theology catholicism adore jesus-shock unlimited-beauty unlimited-goodness unlimited-love unlimited-truth
...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God
Frank SheedTag: theology catholicism
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