Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Moral relativism is a philosophy that denies moral absolutes. That thought to me is the prime suspect — public enemy number one. The philosophy that has extinguished the light in the minds of our teachers, and then their students, and eventually, if not reversed, will extinguish our whole civilization…How important is the issue? The issue of moral relativism is merely the single most important issue of our age, for no society in all of human history has ever survived without rejecting the philosophy [of relativism]…There has never been a society of relativists. Therefore, our society will do one of three things: either disprove one of the most universally established laws of all history; or repent of its relativism and survive; or persist in its relativism and perish…How important is the issue? C.S. Lewis says, in The Poison of Subjectivism , that relativism "will certainly end our species and damn our souls."  Dr. Peter Kreeft 

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) If you love, you will suffer.  The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect against love – and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness. Dr. Peter Kreeft

Here is one of the most wonderful and terrifying sentences I have ever read, from William Law’s Serious Call : “If you will look into your own heart in utter honesty, you must admit that there is one and only one reason why you are not even now a saint.  You do not wholly want to be.” (From How To Win The Culture Wars: A Christian Plan by Dr. Peter Kreeft)

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Your heart is like an infinitely  large hole, and only God                                                                            (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )                        is big enough                        to fill it.                                                (Dr. Peter Kreeft from Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer )