Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do… — 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
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“KANT: The traditional religious foundation for morality may be ontologically stronger, but I say it is not logically or epistemologically stronger. It cannot… — 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
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how… — 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
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man. — 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
Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It… — 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
