Quotes from Peter Kreeft

the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure

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.

Even saints do not smile sweetly when God throws them into mud puddles. Only pigs do that.

Earthly life is full of soporifics, anaesthetics, pain-dullers. In fact, compared with Purgatory our whole life on earth will appear to have been life only half awake. In Purgatory we will be fully awake, fully sensitive, and fully cognizant of the evil of all of our sins. Our clear knowledge of God's brightness and beauty will make our clear knowledge of our own darkness and ugliness more painful than any similar light that shows up our most terrible defects here on earth.

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.

Sin is to faith what infidelity is to marriage.

Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.

Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.

He came. That is the salient fact, the towering truth, that alone keeps us from putting a bullet through our heads. He came.

The transformation of Christ's bodily scars into badges of glory shows us what happens, even in this life, to our souls when we lovingly and trustingly offer our sufferings to Christ and unite them to His. He turns "deformity" into "dignity".

Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.

from each according to his ability to each according to his need"