Quotes from Peter Kreeft

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

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

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

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

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.