“Christ's divinity and lordship over one's life is the distinctive, essential faith of Christians: no non-Christian believes that (if he did, he would be a Christian), and all Christians believe it if they do not, they are not Christians.”

—  Peter Kreeft

Source: Prayer for Beginners (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000), p. 55

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