A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more. - Peter Kreeft - Quotesmemo.com

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I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

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Peter Kreeft

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

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If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

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No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

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In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens. " In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

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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.

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