Inspirational Quotes by Peter Kreeft
“Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.”
“our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.”
“The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.”
“God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men”
“(That’s why contraception is wrong by nature: it’s a limit, a “Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won’t give each other Everything”)”
“But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us,”
“So two things, on our part, are required to receive God’s saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls.”
“Our attempts at charity without God, our attempts at charity before faith and hope, all fail because they are based on ourselves and our own false sufficiency and our own righteousness as their foundation and cause. But the charity that comes after faith is God’s own work in and through us, and is part of our own salvation.”
“Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.”
“the Lutheran alternative to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation which is called consubstantiation, in which the bread and wine are not changed but added to, so that Christ becomes really present along with them but they remain.”
“[T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5).”
“If human life becomes cheapened, it becomes cheapened at both ends. Parents are killed, by euthanasia, when they become a “burden” to their children; and children are killed, by abortion, when they become a “burden” to their parents. All societies in history would regard these two sins as two of the most heartless and inhuman possible sins. To kill your parents is to kill yourself, your own past; and to kill your children is to kill yourself, your own future.”
“God said it, that settles it.”
“Revelations”
“Now in giving honor to one’s parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible.”
“It is significant that in most languages there is a single word for the essential virtue regarding both of these two relationships, which are the only two relationships where we cannot pay all that is owed. The word is “piety” (pietas). It means honor to both ancestors and God, the authors of our life.”
“St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.”
“To a humble mind nothing is more astonishing than to hear its own excellence.”
“If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which would be a lie.”
“To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.”
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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.