Peter Kreeft
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.Collection: Children
You cannot be in love with love.Collection: Catholic
God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.Collection: God
In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: God
Humility, humility, humility, and humility.Collection: Humility
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.Collection: Data
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.Collection: Fate
When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.Collection: Feminist
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.Collection: Practice
Life is hard, but death is even harder.Collection: Life Is Hard
Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.Collection: Two
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.Collection: Animal
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.Collection: Saint
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.Collection: Sleep
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.Collection: Truth
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.Collection: Purpose
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.Collection: Soul
Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.Collection: Broken
You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.Collection: Existence
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.Collection: Christmas
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.Collection: God
To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.Collection: Worship
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.Collection: Facts
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.Collection: Reason
The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.Collection: Two
Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.Collection: Prayer
It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.Collection: Evil
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.Collection: Hate
I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.Collection: Giving
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.Collection: Absolutism
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.Collection: Gun
A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.Collection: Wall
The solution to our suffering is our suffering!Collection: Suffering
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.Collection: Inspirational
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.Collection: Earthquakes
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Depression
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.Collection: Religion
Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.Collection: Gratitude
No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.Collection: Hate
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.Collection: Faith
Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.Collection: Saint
Grey is the devil's favorite color.Collection: Color
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.Collection: Men
If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.Collection: Giving
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).Collection: Joy
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.Collection: God
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.Collection: Atheist