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“Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.”

Book:The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

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The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

This book delves into the concept of divine love, analyzing its portrayal and implications across different religious traditions and philosophical schools of thought. It explores the role of love in the divine and its impact on human life and understanding. more

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Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft is a renowned American philosopher, theologian, and author. Born in 1937, he is known for his contributions to Christian philosophy and logic. Professor Kreeft has taught at several prestigious universities, including Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught philosophy and theology. His extensive body of work covers a wide range of topics from ethics to religious philosophy. more

“For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.”

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.”

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Book:The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

“God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.”

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Author:Meister Eckhart

“"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.”

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