Quotes from Peter Kreeft

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

Pilate's skeptical sneer What is truth? was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.