Quotes from Peter Kreeft

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

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.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

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.

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.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

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

We are artists, because God is.

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

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

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.