Modernism Quotes by Peter Kreeft

“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

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

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

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

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

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

— Peter Kreeft

“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

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

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

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

“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

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