If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Marriage is earth’s closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe in him, for… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether… — 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
![“Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.” quote by Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/97e/peter-kreeft-820_branches_love-is-faith-s-flower-hope-is-its-stem_1546325.png)
