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Us Quotes by Peter Kreeft
- God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of…
- The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our…
- Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
- Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they…
- 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…
- Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount…
- 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…
- We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
- 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…
- 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.…
- To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as…
- God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that…
- Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt…
- To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.
- The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love,…
- Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar