Quotes from Peter Kreeft
Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
- Peter Kreeft
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
- Peter Kreeft
The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.
- Peter Kreeft
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
- Peter Kreeft
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
- Peter Kreeft
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.
- Peter Kreeft
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.
- Peter Kreeft
Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
- Peter Kreeft
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
- Peter Kreeft
If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
- Peter Kreeft
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
- Peter Kreeft
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
- Peter Kreeft