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
Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not… — 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
“High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God. — 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
“Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because… — 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
“Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because… — 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
