Inspirational Quotes by Peter Kreeft

“is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He”

“Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;”

“(Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)”

“   13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliché.)”

“The fifties were far from utopia, but we all know they were significantly happier than today. At this point someone will respond by quoting the ultimate law of life: "Ah, but you can't turn back the clock. You can't go home again. You can't stop progress." Yes, you can. This 'ultimate law' is a lie. ...We can stop this false god Progress. But instead we have stopped real progress. Real progress means getting closer to our goal. And the goal of every human being is happiness. Whatever we do, we do to obtain some kind of happiness. And since we are no longer in "happy days," it logically follows that we have stopped progressing, by the most universal definition of "progress" - progress towards happiness. We have regressed.”

“Heidegger says that “the fundamental question of metaphysics” is “why is there anything at all rather than nothing?” The fundamental question is not, as Plato thought, “what” a thing is (every Platonic dialogue is about that, about an essence, a definition, a concept, such as justice or piety or learning) but why it exists, why anything exists. Plato never asked that ultimate question. And the answer is God.”

“One study showed that German soldiers’ willingness to participate in Hitler’s holocaust—not just to approve it but to perform actual torture on prisoners—was directly proportionate to their level of education. In America it’s the same: approval of their holocaust is directly proportionate to how much education they’ve had. In our schools, of course. The joke is that they still think they’re their schools. And they keep their kids in because they’re more concerned about saving their society’s schools than about saving their children’s souls.”

“De Caussade makes this matter of duty very simple, too, as he makes everything simple: “We have two duties to fulfill: we must actively seek to carry God’s will into effect and passively accept all that his will sends us” (p. 73). That’s all. That’s it.”

“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.”

“The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by "God.”

“Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.”

“You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of Heaven when you die.”

“After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.”

“USTON SMITH NOTES, IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS, THAT ONLY TWO PEOPLE ever astounded their contemporaries so much that the question they evoked was not "Who is he?" but "What is he?" They were Jesus and Buddha. The answers”

“All the way to Heaven is Heaven”, said Saint Catherine of Siena. We”

“The result of change cannot actually exist before the change.”

“Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good.”

“The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change.”

“God’s Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the “dry” times, not the “high” times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This”

“As for the thing that changes, although it can be what it will become, it is not yet what it will become. It actually exists right now in this state (an acorn); it will actually exist in that state (large oak tree). But it is not actually in that state now. It only has the potentiality for that state.”