439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

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.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.