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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity jesus spirituality theology catholicism jesus-christ fundamentalism christ christology christlessness jesus-shock
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.
Peter KreeftTag: love agape philosophy christianity god spirituality catholicism secret-of-life jesus-shock self-giving
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
Peter KreeftTag: philosophy christianity spirituality violence theology boredom catholicism sloth jesus-shock
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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity pleasure spirituality theology boredom catholicism 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 KreeftTag: 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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity god spirituality theology ontology catholicism oxymoron jesus-shock ontological-oxymoron
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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity god spirituality crazy theology catholicism reasonable jesus-shock
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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity spirituality heroes theology culture catholicism culture-critique 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 KreeftTag: 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
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 KreeftTag: truth philosophy christianity god faith spirituality theology catholicism jesus-shock
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