Peter Kreeft Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

• Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

  Peter Kreeft

  Home, Giving, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.17, Ignatius Press

• Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Opposites, Joy

• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy. Would you not return fearless and singing? What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven? To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

• The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.159, Ignatius Press

• 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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Depression, Night, Men

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

• How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Latin, Inspiration

• In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.

  Peter Kreeft

  Beautiful, Hope, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.144, Ignatius Press

• The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.

  Peter Kreeft

  Baseball, Self, Games

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.48, Ignatius Press

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Heaven, Good Work

• Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Idols, Practice

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.93, Ignatius Press

• Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

  Peter Kreeft

  Humility, Pride, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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