Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we… — 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
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics… — 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
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
“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
When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for… — 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
