439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.

Other religions are stories of man’s search for God. The Bible is the story of God’s search for man.

Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.

Socrates: “The corruption of the best things are the worst things.” Or, “The best, when corrupted, become the worst.” As one of your English poets has said, “Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself – and perhaps even through human reason?

You don’t have to convince Muslims of God’s existence or importance.

It’s the most essential thing of all just because it’s not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of “hows”; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it’s like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can’t eat a cookbook!

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: “What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.”

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer’s icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.