Quotes from Peter Kreeft
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
- Peter Kreeft
8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.
- Peter Kreeft
Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When
- Peter Kreeft
We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.
- Peter Kreeft
you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.
- Peter Kreeft
war between paralyzed telepaths.
- Peter Kreeft
I expect that in Heaven, the angels will sing Bach, and they'll envy us our understanding of Beethoven. The unfallen angels don't have to go through the first movements of the 9th symphony to get to the Ode to Joy. But we do.
- Peter Kreeft
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
- Peter Kreeft
Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.
- Peter Kreeft
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
- Peter Kreeft
Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.
- Peter Kreeft
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
- Peter Kreeft