Peter Kreeft
"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."
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"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."
"لقد ملأت ثقافتنا رؤوسنا وأفرغت قلوبنا، حشَت جيوبنا وأجاعت دهشتنا. غذّت عطشنا للحقائق لا للمعنى أو الغموض. إنها تُنتج أناسًا لطفاء، لا أبطالًا."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"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."
"أقرب إلى الحقيقة أن نقول إن الله مجنون من أن نقول إنه عاقل. أظن أن الله يبتسم فحسب حين يدعوه أحد مجنونًا، ولكنه يهز رأسه ويعبس حين يدعوه أحد عاقلًا."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"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."
"إذا كانت المسيح هي حياتك، فموتك لن يكون إلا ازديادًا في المسيح، إلى الأبد.
وإن كانت حياتك مجرد خلوٍ من المسيح، فموتك لن يكون إلا ازديادًا في هذا الخلو، إلى الأبد.
ليس هذا أصولية، بل هو قانون عدم التناقض."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"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."
"العلاقة بين الفن والمسيح كالعلاقة بين ضوء الشمس والشمس ذاتها. إنها، في الحقيقة، العلاقة بين نور الابن والابن."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"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."
"يعتقد البروتستانت أن الأسرار المقدسة سلالم منحنا إياها الله لنصعد بها إليه. بينما يرى الكاثوليك أنها سلالم أعدها لذاته ليتنازل بها إلينا."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts."
"كل ما دون السماء يضجرنا، لأن السماء وحدها أوسع من قلوبنا."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them."
"الجدل مسعى إنساني متجذر في سياق اجتماعي ونفسي أوسع. ويشمل هذا السياق: (1) الكيان النفسي الكلي للشخصين المنخرطين في الحوار، (2) العلاقة بين هذين الشخصين، (3) الوضع الآني الذي يجدان نفسيهما فيه، و (4) السياق الاجتماعي والثقافي والتاريخي الأوسع المحيط بهما."
Peter Kreeft
Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
"The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting."
"إن أشد نقيض للمتعة ليس الألم، بل الملل؛ فنحن على استعداد للمخاطرة بالألم لجعل الحياة المملة شيقة."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."
"أذنبنا بلا سبب سوى نقصٍ في الحب لا يُدرَك، وخلّصنا بلا سبب سوى فيضٍ من الحب لا يُستوعَب."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"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."
"هذا هو سر الحياة: إن الذات لا تحيا إلا بالفناء، ولا تجد هويتها (وسعادتها) إلا بنسيان الذات، وبذلها، والتضحية بها، وبمحبة الأغابي."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"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."
"القلب كالمرأة، والعقل كالرجل؛ ومع أن الرجل رأس المرأة، فالمرأة قلب الرجل، وهي تُدير رأس الرجل لأنها تُدير قلبه."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"“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.”"
"هذا هو سر الحياة: فالذات لا تحيا إلا بالموت، ولا تجد هويتها (وسعادتها) إلا بنسيان الذات، وبذلها، والتضحية بها، وبمحبة الأغابي."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"“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.”"
"القلب كالمرأة، والعقل كالرجل. ومع أن الرجل رأس المرأة، فالمرأة قلب الرجل، وهي تُدير رأس الرجل لأنها تُدير قلبه."
Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
"God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity."
Peter Kreeft
"It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse."
Peter Kreeft
"The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness."
Peter Kreeft
"Go back to Socrates: "Know thyself." For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you?"
Peter Kreeft
"God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great music suggests some profound truth or mysterious meaning that is objectively true but not translatable into words."
Peter Kreeft
"If one Egyptian tailor hadn’t cheated on the threads of Joseph’s mantle, Potiphar’s wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh’s dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor."
Peter Kreeft
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