A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one. — 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
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray… — 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
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
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands...… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints. — 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
