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God Quotes by Peter Kreeft

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A prism splitting white light into many colors shows how God’s love can appear in different shades. Peter Kreeft teaches that a brief prayer brings us closer to God than any book, that loving God for His own sake is key, and that keeping God’s presence all day makes everyday life a path toward heaven.

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God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

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God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

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We are artists, because God is.

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Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

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Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

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

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When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

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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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“Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only…

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Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of…

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“The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and…

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Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

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You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we…

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God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place…

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Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but…

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“But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a…

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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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“What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do…

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“We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not…

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The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which…

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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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If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether…

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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He…

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God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than…

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

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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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To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not…

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The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of…

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God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The…

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“We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it…

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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the…

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“God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our…

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God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but…

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“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because…

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

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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.