No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — 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
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
But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what… — 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
The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do… — 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 you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball… — 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
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb.… — 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
