No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there… — 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,… — 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… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if… — 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
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of… — 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