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Peter Kreeft

(1937) Philosopher United States

361 quotes in 1386 categories

Peter Kreeft’s statements blend rigorous thought with accessible language. Across 361 entries, his reflections on faith and reason offer clear, engaging perspectives.

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Peter Kreeft is a philosopher from the United States, best known for Society and sanity.

Quick Facts About Peter Kreeft

Born: March 16, 1937
Nationality: United States
Profession: Philosopher
Notable works: Society and sanity

About Peter Kreeft

Peter John Kreeft is an American professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. A convert to Catholicism, he is the author of over eighty books on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God in their Handbook of Christian Apologetics.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Peter Kreeft

“Love gives you eyes.”

Catholicism

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Great saints are never wimps.

Great

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Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Death

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“All life is an emergency.”

Emergency

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We are artists, because God is.

Art

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You cannot be in love with love.

Catholic

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Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

Christmas

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Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

Gratitude

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I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

Absolutism

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Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

Cat

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If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Confidence

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Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

Better way

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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

Abortion

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In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

Believe

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If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

God

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Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Catholic

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I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I…

Able

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Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

Arrogant

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Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

Made

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Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Absolutism

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Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy…

Believe

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Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Beauty

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“Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.”

Imagination

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“The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and…

Belief

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The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place,…

Baseball

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You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we…

God

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“That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair? Well,…

Bad thing

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“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ…

Socrates

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“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a…

Art

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“Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because…

Faith

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If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then…

Christ

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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures…

Creator

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“Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get to…

Change

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“To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of…

Belief

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Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball…

Asking

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There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)…

Accommodations

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“How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes.…

Easier said than done

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It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment,…

Careers

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“Why Won’t We Be Bored in Heaven? Because we are with God, and God is infinite. We never come to the end…

Eternity

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“KANT: The traditional religious foundation for morality may be ontologically stronger, but I say it is not logically or epistemologically stronger. It cannot…

Philosophy

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Peter Kreeft by topic

Love (66) Faith (57) God (47) Prayer (42) Inspirational (34) Religion (33) Life (33) Ifs (28) Truth (24) Sin (23) World (22) Christ (20) Jesus shock (19) Inspiration (18) Saint (17) Philosophy (17) Christian inspirational (17) Catholic (15) Time (14) Reason (14) Doe (14) Heaven (13) Belief (13) Suffering (12) Psychology (12)