The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
Peter KreeftNow I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
Peter KreeftPrayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
Peter KreeftGod created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.
Peter Kreeft