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1 " 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 Kreeft , Jesus-Shock
2 " 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. "
3 " 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. "
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
6 " 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. "
7 " 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. "
8 " 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. "
9 " The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. "
10 " Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. "
11 " Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. "
12 " Love gives you eyes. "
13 " It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. "
14 " Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. "
15 " 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. "
16 " Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. "
17 " No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze. "
18 " Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue with you. But if you call it a platitude, I can only pity you, for that means you have never listened to it. "
19 " Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all. "
20 " Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. "
