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You Can Understand the Bible QUOTES

1 " Catholics have seldom had the difficulties and embarrassments many Protestants have had about creation vs. evolution. Ever since Augustine, they have interpreted Genesis‘ “days” non-literally. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

2 " Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

3 " Thus, though Christians are in no way bound by the Jewish ceremonial or civil laws (because they were all in some way preparatory for Christ), we are still under the Ten Commandments in one way, though not in two other ways. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

4 " The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

5 " What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final meaning of our daily work. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

6 " It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

7 " The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel’s flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

8 " The two most popular forms of this are the Oriental form of ignoring real physical evils by creating a mystical inner paradise through yoga and meditation, "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

9 " the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure, "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

10 " Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (symbolized by Pharaoh), through the sea (death) and the wilderness (Purgatory) to the promised land (Heaven). "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible

11 " Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves. "

― Peter Kreeft , You Can Understand the Bible