Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands...… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The medievals loved to say that God wrote two books: nature and Scripture. And since he is the author of both books,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Brother Lawrence says, in The Practice of the Presence of God , 'There is not in the world a kind of life… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share
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