Peter Kreeft Quotes - Page 8

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

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is higher than anyone else in the world. A saint is the real mountain climber. A saint is also lower than anyone else in the world. As with water, he flows to the lowest places - like Calcutta.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.