Inspirational Quotes by Peter Kreeft
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christ , christianity , christlessness , christology , fundamentalism , jesus , jesus-christ , jesus-shock , philosophy , spirituality , theology
“We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.”
“It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.”
“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).”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. It is like a book on a shelf. But, as Dostoyevsky says, 'love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams' ( ).”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.”
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christ , christianity , heaven , hell , jesus , jesus-christ , jesus-shock , meeting-jesus , philosophy , shock , spirituality , theology
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christianity , god , jesus-shock , protestantism , sacraments , spirituality , theology
“Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: boredom , catholicism , christianity , jesus-shock , philosophy , sloth , spirituality , theology , violence
“Love is not concerned with a person’s accomplishments, it is a response to a person’s being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.”
“Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christ , christianity , god , jesus , jesus-christ , jesus-shock , philosophy , pontius-pilate , theology , truth
“Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.”
“Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.”
“It is just as crazy to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christ , christianity , crazy , crazy-in-love , crazy-love , god , inspirational , jesus , jesus-christ , jesus-shock , philosophy , spirituality , theology
“If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.”
“Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.”
“When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Socratic Logic
“Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christianity , faith , god , god-s-grace , grace , jesus-shock , philosophy , sacraments , theology
“It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: absolute , absolutism , catholicism , christianity , god , jesus-shock , love , philosophy , reasonable , relativism , spirituality , theology
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Peter John Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College, and author of numerous books as well as a popular writer on Christian theology, and specifically Roman Catholic apologetics. He also formulated together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God".
Kreeft took his A.B. at Calvin College (1959), and an M.A. at Fordham University (1961). In the same university he completed his doctoral studies in 1965. He briefly did post graduate studies at Yale University. He joined the Philosophy faculty of the Department of Philosophy of Boston College in 1965. In 1994 he was a signer of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together.