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Life Quotes by Peter Kreeft
- The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became…
- The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes…
- The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a…
- For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was…
- Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
- The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life…
- 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,…
- All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right…
- Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a…
- One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
- 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…
- 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…
- The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
- Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle