439 Quotes by Peter Kreeft

Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man’s head because she turns his heart.

Praying anywhere” can easily become “praying nowhere”, just as “praying anytime” can easily become “praying at no time”. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular”.

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God’s face but also see with God’s face.

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not “luv.” Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

Mary’s light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

Third, it can mean deep, wondering reverence, or “awe” at something immeasurably superior. This is an emotion that is much rarer today than ever before in the history of the world, probably because modern life is so full of scientific knowledge and technological power over nature that we live in a dream of arrogant cleverness and a cocoon of predictable comforts.