Peter Kreeft Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Catalyst, Agape

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.51, Ignatius Press

• Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Scripture, Realizing

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.108, Ignatius Press

• But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Stupid, Feelings

• True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Fall, Opposites

• Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Sin

• Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Kindness, Suffering

• 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

• To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Love Is

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.29, Ignatius Press

• Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Levels, Force

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Heart, Mean

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

• The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Powerful, Law

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.137, Ignatius Press

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