Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
Peter KreeftThere is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.
Peter KreeftOur only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
Peter Kreeft