All Peter Kreeft Quotes
- Indifference is the only road that never gets to God. Attitude
- The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater. Always Tends
- Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside. Bring
- Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow. Bottled
- Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with… Birth
- Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in… Branches
- Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the… Beginning
- The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and… Believe
- We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us. Faith
- God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring,… Caring
- Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake. Everything Else
- God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows… Destination
- The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made,… All
- 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, it… Changing
- You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right.… Flunk
- If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our… Baton
- Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love… Becomes
- Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with… Destiny
- When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin. Believe
- Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the… Bible