Catholic Quote by Peter Kreeft Download Open image “Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.” — Peter Kreeft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catholic Choices Feelings Free choice Inspirational Love
Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
We attract love by the emotions we display; we retain love by the emotions we possess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do… — Bernard Iddings Bell Copy Share Image
Thoughts become feelings, feelings become love, and love comes from the heart. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride. — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Love is always bestowed as a gift freely, willingly and without expectation. We dont love to be loved; we love to love. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
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,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I'm the daughter of a Kenyan Catholic father and a Mauritian Hindu mother, and I have a Jewish husband who was born in South… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior… — Theo Rossi Copy Share Image
Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel. — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it! — Sofia Vergara Copy Share Image