439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.

Don’t be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body’s plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn’t do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of “being godlike”.

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

A great story must have, first of all, a good plot, a great deed, a good work, something worth doing. You cannot write a great story about saving a button on a sweater and nothing more. You can, however, write a great story about saving the world, which is what Tolkien did.

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.

Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.

The root reason for this is the denial of the human essence, the human equality, the human family – judging people’s worth only by how efficiently or intelligently or quickly they function. This is confusing the essence with the nonessential.

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: “But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it.” Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

Only is a bird doesn’t swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.