“We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”
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Peter Kreeft
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“We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”
“Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.”
“If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.”
“One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.”
“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...”
“We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.”
“Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.”