Peter Kreeft Quotes

Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

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 story. History is His story.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

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 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

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 to life.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

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 troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Love gives you eyes.

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular".

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints.

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.