Quotes from Peter Kreeft

is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He

we forgive those who trespass

According to God's book, there is "a time to weep and a time to laugh" (Ecclesiastes 3:4). The surest sign that our culture is in deep doo-doo is that we are increasingly sure that this is a time to weep and increasingly doubtful that it is a time to laugh.

There—fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will.

After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.

Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we must be either sinners who think we are saints, or saints who know we are sinners. Even

All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We

This is one reason why modern people are so unprepared for death: death is the one thing society can't do for you, the one thing that forces you to confront your trans-social self. We live as "the lonely crowd", but we die one at a time.

Suppose the god, the goal of progress, is changing. Then progress becomes impossible. How could we progress toward a goal that keeps receding? How could a runner make progress toward a finish line if someone kept moving it as he ran?

It's like a government agency that really works.

Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;

The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.

1) Physical gravity is a physical form of love. That little rock is falling because it's in love with the big rock called the earth.

All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.

Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.

The world thinks men are good and saints are better. Pascal knows men are sinners and saints are miracles.

God, I don't know whether you exist or not. Maybe I'm praying to nobody, but maybe I'm praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only the Truth, whatever it is. If you are the Truth, here I am, ready and willing to follow you wherever you lead.

In art, the world conforms to the creative idea; in science, the idea conforms to the world.

a man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.

bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When

sex for reproduction

The soul is the form of the body and the body is the matter of the soul, somewhat as the meaning of a book is its form or soul and the words are its matter or body.

One of Beethoven's biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For

Some say that to the gods we are like flies that boys idly swat on a summer day. Others say that not a feather from a sparrow falls to the ground without the will of the Heavenly Father." Those are the only two options.