439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

God’s solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father’s love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that’s the heart of the Christian story.

The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love.

Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.

God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way – just as a lover elopes with his beloved.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a ‘test’ as all opportunities are tests.

Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy.

The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.

Corruptio optimi pessima.” The corruption of the best things are the worst things.

To God each one of us is His favorite. God’s love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.