Peter Kreeft Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

  Peter Kreeft

  Home, Giving, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.17, Ignatius Press

• Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Bologna, Helping

• When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

  Peter Kreeft

  Real, Self, Giving

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.186, Ignatius Press

• 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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Eye, Giving

• I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Catholic, Absolutism

• God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Morning, Real

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.20, Ignatius Press

• There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Giving, Challenges

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.42, Ignatius Press

• Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Envy, Fake

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.76, Ignatius Press

• 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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

• Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Idols, Practice

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.93, Ignatius Press

• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Want, Sun

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