Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. “The course… — 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
To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not… — 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
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the… — 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
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we… — 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 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
“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
“god is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of god. music is a language more… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The… — 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 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
“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
