How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or… — 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
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
“I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a… — 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
“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
“To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of… — 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
Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. — 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
“The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us… — 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
“There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it… — 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
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
“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
