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Peter Kreeft

(1937) Philosopher United States

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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

“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the…

Prayer

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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring…

Bored

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God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than…

Darkness

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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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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or…

Babel

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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

Frigidity

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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…

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No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there…

Auschwitz

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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why,…

Answers

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The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever…

Christ

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“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all…

Books

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God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere…

Agents

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“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values…

Coming together

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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Binding

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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Belief

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It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Jesus shock

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We are artists, because God is.

Art

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Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit,…

Bottom

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Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

God

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“I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched…

Faith

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Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Different

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Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at…

Hate

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Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes…

Color

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The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this…

Best things

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Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far…

Christ

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Peter Kreeft by topic

Love (66) Faith (56) God (47) Prayer (40) Inspirational (34) Life (33) Ifs (28) Truth (23) Sin (23) World (22) Religion (22) Jesus shock (19) Christ (19) Inspiration (18) Philosophy (17)