Peter Kreeft Quotes
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Peter Kreeft Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness
However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God,
St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
shows how fruitful analogies can be - not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.
It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.
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.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do ... create.
As C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.
Life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.
When the soul no longer conforms to the will of God, the body no longer conforms to the will of the soul.
the instinct Rousseau found in himself and followed: the instinct to deceive, rob, and seduce rich ladies and to abandon his own children.
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.
A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.
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.
Condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.
Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?
Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
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 25:21).
(4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment.
I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.