God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than… — 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… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and… — 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
“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
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
“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
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Our only qualification for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. 'Those who are well have… — 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
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 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
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“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
“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