A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
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
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
“Dostoyevsky says, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” (The Brothers Karamazov).” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes… — 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
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Love is supposed to bring us out of the dark prison of the “my will be done” ego into the joys of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a… — 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
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“So nothing can be ours by right, by nature, or by necessity. But one thing is mine by my free choice: the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly… — 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
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves… — 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
![“Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings…” quote by Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c97/peter-kreeft-820_awareness_trusting-god-s-grace-means-trusting-god_1573419.jpg)
![“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)
