This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves… — 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
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
