Peter Kreeft Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

  Peter Kreeft

  If There Is A God, Maps, Virtue

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.9, Ignatius Press

• The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

  Peter Kreeft

  Animal, Civilization, Dying

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.11, Ignatius Press

• The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, Evil, Maps

• Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

  Peter Kreeft

  Purpose, Ethics, Illusion

• For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wise, Men, Reality

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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