Peter Kreeft Quotes

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• The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our…
• A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is…
• All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
• God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.
• Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly…
• The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a…
• You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.
• Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
• When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
• If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
• You cannot be in love with love.
• Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.
• Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
• I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.
• Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.
• Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.
• Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is…
• It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
• It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
• Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open…

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