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Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing
Peter Kreeft

1 "In us is not only self-deception but also inner truth, and truth is stronger."

2 "God is present in every place."

3 "Faith and faith's fruit, love, cast out fear. Jesus keeps telling His disciples, 'Fear not, only believe….why are you afraid, O you of little faith?' (Mark 5:36, Matthew 8:26)"

4 The child in us is called by three names: faith (trust, openness), hope (idealism, wonder), and love (adoration, yea-saying)."

5 "All of history is a metaphysical circulatory system, with God at its heart."

6 "In the heart, heaven and hell are decided."

7 "For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue."

8 "The doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist does not say too much, but too little; it can be extended to include the whole world. As Teilhard deChardin says in 'The Divine Milieu', we should be able to hear from everything in the world the words 'This is my Body.'"

9 "Only the One who designed you and is even at this moment providentially sculpting you in a thousand unrecognized ways into the masterpiece he always had in mind for you to be knows the secret of your destiny."

10 "God is present to us because he is presence itself."

11 "God believes in our butterfly, hopes for our butterfly, loves us as butterflies….God sees the destined saint."

12 "Everyone, even 'ordinary' people, are mirrors reflecting God."

13 "Love fulfills the moral will's deepest quest for goodness."

14 "God sent prophets to all three areas of the soul: philosophers to enlighten the intellect, prophets to straighten out the will, and myth-makers to tease and touch the emotions with a desire for himself."

15 "God is present now, doing his thing in all times and places."

16 "As Viktor Frankl found in a Nazi concentration camp, our deepest, rock-bottom need is…meaning and purpose."

17 "There can be only one absolutely absolute absolute."

18 "God is the oneness of the beginning and the end."

19 "Suffering is an occasion for wisdom, and wisdom is an essential ingredient in happiness."

20 "I am a flying arrow, determined by the target because I have been launched by the mind of a divine archer, a mind with a purpose."

21 "Love is the highest accuracy….God is love."

22 "When we discover an eternal truth, we are really remembering a knowledge that is innate to us but which our conscious mind had forgotten….whenever we discover an eternal truth, we experience an 'aha!' – a moment of recognition (re-cognition, knowing-again)."

23 "Every atom in the quadrillion-mile universe and every 'chance' event in its trillion-year history is deliberately and perfectly planned and controlled by God for the ultimate end of our good, our heavenly joy. Galaxies revolve and dinosaurs breed and rain falls and people fall in love and uncles smoke cheap cigars and people lose their jobs and we all die - for our good, the finished product, God's work of art."

24 "All the different things we desire are really one; for they are reflections of aspects of God, and God is one."

25 "Where am I to search? Which guru or authority or spiritual salesman should I listen to? To your own heart. It is a teacher you can trust, for it will not despise you (it IS you), and it is wiser than your head, wiser than you think. Listen to your heart. It will tell you for what you may hope; it will tell you the meaning of life, if only you listen deeply."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite