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Love Quotes by Peter Kreeft

66 Love quotes by Peter Kreeft

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A baseball tossed to the divine pitcher illustrates love as a game we return to God, keeping the play alive. Kreeft’s sayings also describe love as the binding force that holds every level of existence together, and as the fruit that grows from faith and hope. He points out that indifference is a truer opposite of love than hate.

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We are artists, because God is.

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You cannot be in love with love.

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“Love gives you eyes.”

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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

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Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

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Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

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Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

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God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

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Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

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Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not…

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The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of…

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Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

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“We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the…

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To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

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“It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.”

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“But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a…

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“life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it…

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God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place…

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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we…

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There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not…

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Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what…

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The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place,…

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You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we…

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Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize…

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“Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. “The course…

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“Why Won’t We Be Bored in Heaven? Because we are with God, and God is infinite. We never come to the end…

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When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for…

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“How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes.…

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But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always…

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“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing…

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“god is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of god. music is a language more…

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“We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to…

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God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than…

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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we…

No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil…

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The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

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“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws,…

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.