Peter Kreeft Quotes

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• I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

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  Prayer, Differences, People

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• 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.

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  Nice, Hero, Heart

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• Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

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  Opposites, Abortion, Use

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• The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

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  Religion, Way, Anthem

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• If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

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  Faith, Loneliness, Love You

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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• On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

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  Turtles, Doors, Two

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• We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

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  Faith, Heaven, Good Work

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• The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

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  Jesus, Joy, Secret

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.138, Ignatius Press

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• Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

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  Two, People, Stupidity

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• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

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  Jesus, Mean, Self

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

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  World, Action, Language

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• You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

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  Order, Catholic, Praying

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• 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

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• No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

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  Culture, Lessons, Firsts

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• Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

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  Gratitude, Joy

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.122, Ignatius Press

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• In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

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  Depression, Night, Men

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.177, Ignatius Press

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

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  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Age

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• Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

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  Dog, Serious, Fart

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• A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

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  Trying, Saint, Harder

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• Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

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  Men, Religion, Stories

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• Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

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  Atheist, Typewriters, Years

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.26, Ignatius Press

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• 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.'

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  Home, Giving, Heaven

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

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• Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

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  Philosophy, Caring, Moral Absolutism

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

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  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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