The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles… — 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
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon… — 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