An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth. — 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
“Honesty is a moral virtue, a matter of the will. Honesty means willing the truth with the whole of your heart. This… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder.… — 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
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it. — 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
“The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths,… — 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
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“don’t confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method… — 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
