Peter Kreeft Quotes About Sinners

Quotes about: Sinners

• Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

  Peter Kreeft

  Thinking, Saint, Knows

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Saint, Wimps, Made

• No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Compassion, Age

  "The Pillars of Unbelief - Machiavelli" by Peter Kreeft, www.peterkreeft.com. January/February 1988.

• Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, War, Cancer

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.45, Ignatius Press

• Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

  Peter Kreeft

  Thinking, Identity, Overcoming

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

• The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

  Peter Kreeft

  Confused, Mistake, Judging

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