Peter Kreeft Quotes

But we can influence (not compel) each other’s choices through the mediating channels of imagination and emotion. So can angels. They can’t put judgments in your mind or choices in your will, but they...

Catholics have seldom had the difficulties and embarrassments many Protestants have had about creation vs. evolution. Ever since Augustine, they have interpreted Genesis‘ days non-literally.

Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.

Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (...

Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That’s why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens...

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

Dulia is like a high but finite number; hyperdulia is like the highest number out of a finite number of finite numbers; latria is like infinity.

Each practical moral virtue has two opposed vices, a too much and a too little (e.g., cowardice and foolhardiness, or insensitivity and self-indulgence). Theoretical truth also usually contrasts with...

Even God cannot make us love him. Forced love is a meaningless impossibility, like virtuous sin.

The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love.

Sacramentally present at Mass—this Church is either God ‘s own or it is the devil’s own.

For instance, it is a hate crime to quote certain politically incorrect verses from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in any public arena.)

5. You can’t prove a lot of things that it would be lunacy to deny—for instance, that human reason is trustworthy, that it is not being hypnotized by a demon at every moment. Of course that thought is...

A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life.

Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside,

Every human soul craves the good, the true, and the beautiful absolutely and without limit. And it is precisely about these three most fundamental values that the gap is the widest. Ordinary people st...

Now in giving honor to one’s parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendshi...