Inspirational Quotes by Peter Kreeft
“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
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: art , catholicism , christ , christianity , god , jesus , jesus-christ , jesus-shock , philosophy , son-of-god , sonlight , spirituality , sun , sunlight , theology
“Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: adore , beauty , catholicism , christianity , god , goodness , inspirational , jesus-shock , love , philosophy , spirituality , theology , truth , unlimited-beauty , unlimited-goodness , unlimited-love , unlimited-truth
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.”
“The medievals loved to say that God wrote two books: nature and Scripture. And since he is the author of both books, and since this Teacher never contradicts himself, these two books never contradict each other. And since this God who never contradicts himself also gave us the two truth detectors, faith and reason, it follows that faith and reason, properly used, never contradict each other. Therefore, all heresies are contrary to reason. Not all the truths of faith can be proved by reason, but all arguments against the truths of faith can be disproved by reason.”
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.”
“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christianity , faith , god , jesus-shock , philosophy , spirituality , theology , truth
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: catholicism , christianity , crazy , god , jesus-shock , philosophy , reasonable , spirituality , theology
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Jesus-Shock
topics: absence-of-god , catholicism , christianity , deism , deist , god , jesus-shock , philosophy , presence-of-god , theism , theist , theology
“Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get to Him, the hotter the fire gets. Words begin to melt. The first word that melts in His presence is the word 'I.' That is unique name. The closer you get to Him, the harder it is to begin a sentence with 'I.' It melts in the fire of 'thou.”
“Music is more powerful than reason in the soul. That is also why Plato made music the very first step in his long educational curriculum: good music was to create the harmony of soul that would be a ripe field for the higher harmony of reason to take root in later. And that is also why he said that the decay of the ideal state would begin with a decay in music. In fact, one of your obscure modern scholars has shown that social and political revolutions have usually been preceded by musical revolutions, and why another sage said, 'Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who writes its laws.”
“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.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
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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.