Peter Kreeft Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Nice, Hero, Heart

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

• 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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  Heart, Men, Turns

• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy. Would you not return fearless and singing? What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven? To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

• The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.159, Ignatius Press

• We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

  Peter Kreeft

  Heart, Mind, Needs

• Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Lying, Heart

• 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

• A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

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  Love, Heart, Mean

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.96, Ignatius Press

• Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Heart, Transformation

• Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Peter Kreeft (2008). “Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer”, p.28, Ignatius Press

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