Peter Kreeft Quotes

St. Thomas is as practical and plain and reasonable in ethics as Aristotle, or Confucius, or your uncle.

St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.

Suffering together builds togetherness, and if togetherness is more important for us and for our joy than freedom from suffering is, then God is good to allow this suffering.

The claims the Catholic Church makes are a little like the claims Christ makes: so superhuman that it becomes impossible to take a comfortable, middle-of-the-road attitude toward them, unless we are e...

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.

The root of pride is found to consist in man not being in some way subject to God and His rule.

The second reason was to make public and visible an invisible spiritual reality. This is the purpose of all the sacraments. Indeed, it is the fundamental purpose of matter itself.

The transformation of Christ’s bodily scars into badges of glory shows us what happens, even in this life, to our souls when we lovingly and trustingly offer our sufferings to Christ and unite them to...

There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.

There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righ...

There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism.

Thus the quintessentially conservative dogma of Christ’s divinity as the pre-incarnate eternal Logos is the basis for the quintessentially liberal hope that good pagans can go to Heaven. He is indeed...

We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light.

We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.

We see that the universe is full of all sorts of species. Every possible rung on the cosmic hierarchy is filled. There are no gaps. Below us there are intelligent animals, like apes, then less intelli...

When God changed someone’s name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter.

Yet one’s joy will be greater than another’s on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.

A God without wrath saves a man without sin by mercy without judgment for a Heaven without a Hell through a Christ without a cross.