Peter Kreeft Quotes

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• Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

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  Nice, Hero, Heart

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• Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

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  Opposites, Abortion, Use

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• I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

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  Prayer, Differences, People

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• We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

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  Faith, Heaven, Good Work

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• On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

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  Turtles, Doors, Two

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• The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

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  Jesus, Joy, Secret

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.138, Ignatius Press

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• The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

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  Religion, Way, Anthem

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• If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

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  Faith, Loneliness, Love You

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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• The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

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  Faith, Believe, Keys

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.31, Ignatius Press

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• Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

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  Heart, Trying, Holes

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• Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

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  Two, People, Stupidity

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• Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

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  World, Action, Language

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• Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

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  Life Changing, Liars, Lying

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• No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

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  Culture, Lessons, Firsts

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• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

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  Jesus, Mean, Self

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

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  Trying, Saint, Harder

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• Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

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  Gratitude, Joy

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.122, Ignatius Press

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• In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

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  Depression, Night, Men

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.177, Ignatius Press

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• Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

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  Grace, God's Grace, Emptiness

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• God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

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  Believe, Eye, Giving

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• Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

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  Done, Sin, Originals

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• If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

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  Doe, Turns, Ifs

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.72, Ignatius Press

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

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  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

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  Order, Catholic, Praying

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• The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

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  Christian, Life Changing, Evil

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