Quotes from Peter Kreeft
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
- Peter Kreeft
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
- Peter Kreeft
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
- Peter Kreeft
We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
- Peter Kreeft
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."
- Peter Kreeft
Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
- Peter Kreeft
Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.
- Peter Kreeft
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
- Peter Kreeft
One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.
- 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
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
- Peter Kreeft
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
- Peter Kreeft