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Faith Quotes by Peter Kreeft

57 Faith quotes by Peter Kreeft

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A tower of Babel undone by music illustrates Kreeft’s view that harmony can replace broken language. He compares faith to a root, hope to a stem, and love to the fruit that grows into joy. Kreeft also reminds us that prayer needs only faith, hope, and love, not lofty piety.

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“You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.”

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“The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!”

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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

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We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

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“Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.”

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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

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“Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths,…

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If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and…

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“Marriage is earth’s closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.”

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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet.…

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“We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the…

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Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

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Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It…

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“There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it…

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“Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because…

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“The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would…

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The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life.…

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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down…

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A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands...…

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Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb.…

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“Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us…

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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.…

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“How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes.…

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“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing…

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“Brother Lawrence says, in The Practice of the Presence of God , 'There is not in the world a kind of life…

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“We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to…

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Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs…

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“God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants…

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“The medievals loved to say that God wrote two books: nature and Scripture. And since he is the author of both books,…

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“To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of…

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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

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God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

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“Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.”

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Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

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God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

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Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

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“I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched…

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“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those…

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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,…

The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the…

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or…

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we…

No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil…

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…

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books…

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…

“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws,…

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.