Peter Kreeft Quotes about Love

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Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Sin

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Fall, Opposites

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Kindness, Suffering

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Love Is

Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.29, Ignatius Press

But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Stupid, Feelings

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Scripture, Realizing

Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.108, Ignatius Press

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Levels, Force

Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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

Peter Kreeft

Love, Heart, Mean

Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.96, Ignatius Press

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Giving, Challenges

Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.42, Ignatius Press

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

Peter Kreeft

Love, Powerful, Law

Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.137, Ignatius Press