Peter Kreeft Quotes

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• Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two… Argumentation
• An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter… Actually Used
• Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul. Conscience
• If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it… Bet
• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,… All
• If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will… Christ
• This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape… Agape
• Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. Anorexia
• The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. Bored
• It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls… Calls
• The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the… Art
• By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an… Apple
• God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new… Ability
• Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but… Catholicism
• The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart… Head
• We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. Excess
• The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist. Clearly
• It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. Alone
• Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. Bigger
• Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. Adored

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