Dr. Peter Kreeft - Be a Saint

Dr. Peter Kreeft - Be a Saint
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Saturday, January 31, 2009

Dr. Peter Kreeft is the author of nearly 50 books. When he is not writing books, he is also a professor of philosophy at Boston College. The following are excerpts from Envoy Magazine, V. 8.3 “How to Lose the Culture Wars.” Win it!

Sixth, be a saint, not a yuppie. You are part of the Kingdom of Heaven, not the Kingdom of this World. Learn the moves of your Lord. Forget yourself. Sacrifice. Give. It’s the secret of joy. Try it, you’ll like it.

There are two kinds of love: love and lust, charity and cupidity, giving and getting, agape and Eros. Just as selfishness seems the way to happiness but is really always the infallible and inevitable way to misery, so self-sacrifice out of love seems to be the way to misery but it is really the guaranteed way to joy. Experience the thrill of sacrifice. But if you can’t do it in love, don’t do it, because it won’t give you joy. If you can’t do it cheerfully, don’t give. The Lord blesses a cheerful giver.

Why are Muslims growing faster than anyone else? Our own Scripture gives us the embarrassing answer: Because God promised triumph over natural and supernatural enemies to those who obeyed His will and His law, and defeat to those who disobey. IF CHRISTIANS CONTINUE TO ABORT, CONTRACEPT, DIVORCE, FORNICATE, SODOMIZE, DISHONOR, AND LIE MORE THAN MUSLIMS DO, MUSLIMS WILL CONQUER THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.

The competition with Islam is not about oil or about money or about political power or about terrorism or even about nuclear bombs, IT IS ABOUT SAINTS. THE RELIGION WITH THE MOST SAINTS WILL WIN THE WORLD. THAT’S HOW WE WON IT ONCE, AND THAT’S HOW WE LOST IT, AND THAT’S HOW WE MUST WIN IT AGAIN.

The way to become a saint is very easy to understand and very hard to do.
IT IS SIMPLY TO GIVE GOD EVERYTHING.
Start with the mind. All that we are is made of our thoughts. {Buddha} Sow a thought. …. “Take every thought captive to Christ.”

Seventh, understand who our enemy is: it is not psychological miseries or maladjustments. It is not false ideologies or philosophies. It is sins. Our own sins.
Every sin is like a drop of blood drained like Dracula from every soul.

Every act of love is a drink of cold water given to every thirsty soul. There are no victimless crimes. Mankind is one body, and we help or harm the spiritual health of every single cell in that body, That is, every single person in the world, by every single thought and choice we make. The salvation of all is dependent on the sanctity of each. The more you love your neighbor, the more likely it is you will see him in heaven. Simply put, be real. Don’t be a phony. Be a saint.
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