Quotes from Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

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.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

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.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

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.

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