439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God’s sake.

Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Kindness – mere kindness – cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, “I am.” We are ontological oxymorons.

The national anthem of hell is, “I Did It My Way.”

Man’s soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his mind, and pagan mythmakers for his heart and imagination and feelings. Of course, the latter two are not infallible.

If you didn’t believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

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.

He offers total mercy and forgiveness to all who will accept it by trusting Him and repenting of their sins, but He does not, and cannot, give forgiveness to those who will not receive His gift. Gifts are freely given and freely received. Heaven cannot be forced on a creature with free will.