Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 7

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.