Peter Kreeft Quotes About Hate

Quotes about: Hate

• This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself, while hate is not in God but is in Satan. If we do not clearly distinguish anger from hatred, then we do not clearly distinguish God from Satan!

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Hatred, Reason Why

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.85, Ignatius Press

• Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Opposites, Indifference

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.41, Ignatius Press

• 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

• We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Particular

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas”, p.217, Ignatius Press

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