{"quotes":[{"text":"Pilate's skeptical sneer 'What is truth?' was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christ","christianity","god","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-shock","philosophy","pontius-pilate","theology","truth"],"id":13047,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, 'I am.' We are ontological oxymorons.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christianity","god","jesus-shock","ontological-oxymoron","ontology","oxymoron","philosophy","spirituality","theology"],"id":38369,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["absence-of-god","catholicism","christianity","deism","deist","god","jesus-shock","philosophy","presence-of-god","theism","theist","theology"],"id":39704,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christianity","culture","culture-critique","heroes","jesus-shock","philosophy","spirituality","theology"],"id":64138,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: 'Behold, I make all things new.' (Rev. 21:5) I hope you remember that most moving line in the most moving movie ever made, The Passion Of The Christ, when Christ turns to His mother on the way to Calvary, explaining the need for the Cross and the blood and the agony: 'See, Mother, I make all things new.' I hope you remember that line with your tear ducts, which connect to the heart, as well as with your ears, which connect to the brain. Christ changed every human being he ever met. In fact, He changed history, splitting it open like a coconut and inserting eternity into the split between B.C. And A.D. If anyone claims to have met Him without being changed, he has not met Him at all. When you touch Him, you touch lightning.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["christianity","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-shock","religion-and-philoshophy"],"id":100991,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christianity","god","jesus-shock","protestantism","sacraments","spirituality","theology"],"id":124089,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["boredom","catholicism","christianity","god","hearts","heaven","inspirational","jesus-shock","philosophy","spirituality","theology"],"id":144717,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"Love gives you eyes.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christianity","eyes","inspirational","jesus-shock","love","philosophy","spirituality","theology"],"id":145906,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christ","christianity","christlessness","christology","fundamentalism","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-shock","philosophy","spirituality","theology"],"id":151493,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christ","christianity","heaven","hell","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-shock","meeting-jesus","philosophy","shock","spirituality","theology"],"id":176540,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}