439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

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

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.