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
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“I often thought of comparing life to a dream, because death always seemed to be an awakening.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth. — 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
“life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint” — 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
“The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.” — 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