Quotes from Peter Kreeft

Physical emotions are moved by chemicals, nerve endings, weather, digestion, hormones, and a thousand other things in the body or the physical world. Animals can't love without physical emotion. Angels can't love with physical emotion. We can love with or without physical emotion.

our ego is not God. In fact, it is often wrong, because it is fallen, foolish, and faithless.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.

Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.

Humans are the lowest (least intelligent) of spirits and the highest (most intelligent) of animals. We are rational animals, incarnate minds, the smartest of animals and the stupidest of spirits:

Food and drink and walking and conversation and friendship—those have to be five of the greatest things in the world.

war between paralyzed telepaths.

I expect that in Heaven, the angels will sing Bach, and they'll envy us our understanding of Beethoven. The unfallen angels don't have to go through the first movements of the 9th symphony to get to the Ode to Joy. But we do.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.