Peter Kreeft Quotes

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 only if we trust, do we believe.

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 life will be a symphony.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

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

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

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 is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Great saints are never wimps.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

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

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

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, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

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 some anonymous aggregate.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

You cannot be in love with love.