439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches – look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left.

Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.

Our only qualitifcation for God’s grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

God’s interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice” people, not heroes.

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What’s there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s in charge here? Who’s the author? That’s what we really long to know.