Humans Quotes by Peter Kreeft

12 Humans quotes by Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft offers a compact set of insights into the human condition. Though brief, these 12 quotes give a clear sense of his philosophical style and the questions he keeps returning to.

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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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All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they…

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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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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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A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

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Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how…

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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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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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God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies…

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There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems…

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Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches…

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For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and…

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

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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…

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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…

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

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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 the books…

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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…

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