Peter Kreeft Quotes

The way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .

The will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil—even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own u...

When the soul no longer conforms to the will of God, the body no longer conforms to the will of the soul.

A God made in the world's image can't save the world.

Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.

Aristotle also believed that a vacuum was impossible.

Because is ambiguous. It could mean only a subjective motive (Because I’m paranoid, I believe that man is going to kill me), or it could mean an objective reason (Because he’s pointing a gun at me and...

But we will probably never see this, never move from original selfishness to universal charity and unselfishness, without the intermediate step of the family.

Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And

Doesn’t certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don’t you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere?

Earthly life is full of soporifics, anaesthetics, pain-dullers. In fact, compared with Purgatory our whole life on earth will appear to have been life only half awake. In Purgatory we will be fully aw...

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

Expect the world to be Heaven, and it will feel like Hell. Expect it to be Purgatory, and it will feel like Heaven. The two most salient facts about Purgatory are pain and hope, suffering and meaning.

Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.

First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth...

For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people:...

For any act to be morally right, three things are necessary: (1) right act, (2) right motive, and (3) right circumstances. If any one of these factors is not right, the act is wrong.

For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls.

God said it, that settles it.

God, I don’t know whether you exist or not. Maybe I’m praying to nobody, but maybe I’m praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only th...