Quotes from Peter Kreeft

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

You cannot be in love with love.