Peter Kreeft Quotes

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• Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual…
• True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem…
• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying…
• Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
• Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and…
• Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
• 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 religion…
• There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is…
• This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself,…
• Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
• In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.
• No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
• We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality…
• Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.
• Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."
• We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was…
• How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter,…
• Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is…
• Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
• Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help…

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