The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever… — 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
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative]. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When I think how much my Protestant brothers and sisters are missing in not having Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist; when… — 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
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
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
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross;… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image