Peter Kreeft Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

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

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  Thinking, Saint, Knows

• A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is higher than anyone else in the world. A saint is the real mountain climber. A saint is also lower than anyone else in the world. As with water, he flows to the lowest places - like Calcutta.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Husband, Real

• Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

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  Prayer, Doctors, Soul

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.14, Ignatius Press

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

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  Saint, Wimps, Made

• The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

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  God, Spiritual, Soul

• When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

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  Feminist, Saint, Pupils

• Great saints are never wimps.

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  Saint, Wimps

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

• Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

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  Men, Saint, Tough

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

• If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

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  Rain, Saint, Want

• Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

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  Saint, World, Sin

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

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  Trying, Saint, Harder

• The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

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  Saint, Want, Reason

• Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

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  Saint, Want, Praying

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.154, Ignatius Press

• Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

  Peter Kreeft

  Saint, Way, Knows

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