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
It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it;… — 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
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the… — 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
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world. — 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
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb. — 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
