Inspirational Quotes by Peter Kreeft
“Love makes more waves than hate. Wicked men will hate and fear you more for loving them than for hating them. They will quickly forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right. Saints always go into the ghettos, especially the moral ghettos. They make waves. Moses made waves. Jesus made waves. Muhammad made waves. The waves make the garbage come to the surface, and the waves of garbage often drown the saints and make them martyrs, white corpuscles that give themselves up to fight an infection. Saints are society's white corpuscles, society's saviors. If nobody wants to crucify you, you're not doing your job. Or else your job isn't his work.”
“There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.”
“Its [Narnia's] fabric is shot through with glory. There is no peak, no valley, no sea or forest, but bears the weight of this glory, no law of the land that does not mirror the exact pattern of this glory, no spell or incantation or taboo that does not reach through the veil that protects the mundane and the obvious from the great glories and mysteries that press upon them. No creature - no faun, dryad, star, or winged horse - that does not bear about and exhibit in its own form some bit of the shape of that glory. And, alas, there is no evil that does not turn out to be fraud, parody, or counterfeit of that glory.”
“Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know.”
“Becoming saints is the meaning of life. It is why we exist. It is why God created us.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“Dostoyevsky says, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” (The Brothers Karamazov).”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“We pray to obey God, not to “play God”. We pray, not to change God’s mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to “let God be God”. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt 7:7).”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“If I did not love you more today than I did yesterday, I would love you less, and that is intolerable. So I must find more ways to love you every day.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.”
“The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer For Beginners
“Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us).”
― Peter Kreeft ,
from Prayer for Beginners
“life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.”
― Peter Kreeft ,
“A great story must have, first of all, a good plot, a great deed, a good work, something worth doing. You cannot write a great story about saving a button on a sweater and nothing more. You can, however, write a great story about saving the world, which is what Tolkien did.”
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Peter John Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College, and author of numerous books as well as a popular writer on Christian theology, and specifically Roman Catholic apologetics. He also formulated together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God".
Kreeft took his A.B. at Calvin College (1959), and an M.A. at Fordham University (1961). In the same university he completed his doctoral studies in 1965. He briefly did post graduate studies at Yale University. He joined the Philosophy faculty of the Department of Philosophy of Boston College in 1965. In 1994 he was a signer of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together.