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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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.

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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.

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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.

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When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral...

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I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

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Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

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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 sit...

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If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

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Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.

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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

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An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arg...

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We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

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Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

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High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambiti...

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Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real wo...

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It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

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We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

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But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not take us down from our crosses: so that we do not substitute feelings and experiences for ...

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What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon...

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We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must ...

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Author Bio

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