Peter Kreeft Quotes

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• I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

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  Prayer, Differences, People

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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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  Nice, Hero, Heart

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• Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

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  Opposites, Abortion, Use

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• On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

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  Turtles, Doors, Two

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• The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

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  Jesus, Joy, Secret

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.138, Ignatius Press

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• The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

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  Religion, Way, Anthem

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• If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

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  Faith, Loneliness, Love You

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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

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  Faith, Heaven, Good Work

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• Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

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  Grace, God's Grace, Emptiness

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• Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

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  Two, People, Stupidity

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• Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

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  World, Action, Language

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• The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.

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  Healing, Frustration, Needs

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.17, Ignatius Press

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• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

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  Jesus, Mean, Self

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

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  Heart, Trying, Holes

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• No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

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  Culture, Lessons, Firsts

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• Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

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  Done, Sin, Originals

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• Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

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  Humility, Self, Catholic

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• 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.

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  Pain, Simple, Listening To Others

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer”, p.34, Ignatius Press

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• Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

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  Cat, Evil, Needs

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• Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

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  Prayer, Doctors, Soul

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.14, Ignatius Press

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

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  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Age

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• Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

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  Philosophy, Caring, Moral Absolutism

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• Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

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  Saint, Wimps, Made

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• There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

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  Religion, Scientific Method, Way

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