“We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life.… — 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
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Brother Lawrence says, in The Practice of the Presence of God , 'There is not in the world a kind of life… — 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
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
We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The medievals loved to say that God wrote two books: nature and Scripture. And since he is the author of both books,… — 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
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our… — 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
