Quotes by Peter Kreeft

About Peter Kreeft:

Peter John Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God".
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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

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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.

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Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

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It is just as crazy to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

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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.

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Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

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

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It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

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God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Kreeft
  • DescriptionAmerican philosopher
  • Born1937
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTheologian; Philosopher; Writer