When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. — 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
“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
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we… — 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
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The… — 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
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the… — 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
“Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only… — 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
God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because… — 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
