Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 10

Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

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.

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

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.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

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.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

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.

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.

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

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.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

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.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

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.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.