Quotes from Peter Kreeft

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

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.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.