“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the… — 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… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it;… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get 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
