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Love 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…
- There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
- If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the…
- 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…
- If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
- You cannot be in love with love.
- Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
- It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
- Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
- Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
- Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our…
- Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
- We are artists, because God is.
- Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
- Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
- Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with…
- Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in…
- 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 key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and…
- God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring,…
- Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
- 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…
- You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right.…
- Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love…
- God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.
More Love Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide