439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

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.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

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

Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

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:

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive