Peter Kreeft Quotes: 36

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

• The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

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• In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens."In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

• By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

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• Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice"people, not heroes.

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• We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

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• This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

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• If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

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• We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

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• One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

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• Love gives you eyes.

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• The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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• Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

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• Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

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• If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

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

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• Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

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• 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 awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

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• Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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• 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 are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

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• 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.

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• It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

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

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

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• The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

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• God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

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

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• 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.

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• Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

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• The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

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• If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

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