Peter Kreeft Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Flower, Love Is

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.41, Ignatius Press

• 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

• The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

  Peter Kreeft

  Things In Life, Knowing, Six

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