There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Why Won’t We Be Bored in Heaven? Because we are with God, and God is infinite. We never come to the end… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first,… — 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
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“So nothing can be ours by right, by nature, or by necessity. But one thing is mine by my free choice: the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to… — 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
