439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.