Quotes About Kreeft

Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.

Dostoyevsky says, "love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams" (The Brothers Karamazov).

we are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason.

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:

of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built.

The world thinks men are good and saints are better. Pascal knows men are sinners and saints are miracles.

we are already wholly by his right, but because of sin we are not yet wholly his in fact because we do not wholly will what we are right.

shows how fruitful analogies can be—not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.