Inspirational Quotes by Peter Kreeft
“Dulia is like a high but finite number; hyperdulia is like the highest number out of a finite number of finite numbers; latria is like infinity.”
“inchoate”
“we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.”
“Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.”
“(4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man’s loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.”
“When I ask my “Catholic” students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ.”
“Reason is His voice, His interior prophet, in our souls. We call that prophet conscience. (St. Thomas used two terms for it: “synderesis” was the awareness of its reality and truth and authority and rules, and “conscience” was the application of it. We use “conscience” for both.) Conscience is essentially the power of reason to know good and evil.”
“Our flesh, having been worn by the Most High Himself is the most noble mantle of all. The Manicheans and Buddhists and Platonists on the one hand, who belittle this flesh, and the gluttons and lechers and egoists on the other, who are slaves to it, are still living in division.”
“Thus I found that I had been encamped with the ancient Arameans. They thought God was present only on the mountains;[10] I thought God was present only in the present.”
“In the midst of our deepest pain, we want to be in control. We want to be able to ask why and have an answer that is acceptable to us. We want to rely on our own strength of mind. Yet this is not the way of faith, and it is not the path to holiness. It is not being as children who trust in a Father who loves us.”
“You can quickly turn the time you spend being aware of your body as it is into a prayer of gratitude, wonder, and awe at the creation of your own being.”
“Saint Paul (whom I had thought of as the first Luther) taught in Romans, Galatians and elsewhere that justification was more than a legal decree; it established us in Christ as God’s children by grace alone. In fact, I discovered that nowhere did Saint Paul ever teach that we were justified by faith alone! Sola fide was unscriptural!”
“Jesus é a única Pessoa a quem você tem de prestar contas. Quando você tem Jesus diante de si, o que é que consegue lhe dizer com a consciência tranquila?”
“In all the realms of Middle-earth, Gondor is still clearly a special case. The problem with special cases is that when there is no greater good than self-preservation, all policies and tactics, however apparently immoral, become justifiable options.”
“Since we can hold only a limited number of things at once in our working memory, we tend to get very frustrated when the memory banks fill up. The more we are expected to accomplish at once, the slower our processing speed gets. It’s like opening multiple windows on the computer. If you start too many programs without shutting others down, the computer slows down.”
“Pouco antes da licenciatura, dei-me conta de que não sabia se Scott desejava ou não ter uma família numerosa. Eu sempre desejara ter pelo menos quatro ou cinco filhos. Por isso, como por acaso, puxei o tema: – Você quer ter filhos, não quer? – Bom, não filhos demais. Ah, não! – pensei eu – Agora acontece que é um partidário do “crescimento zero” da população! Procurando manter o tom indiferente, perguntei-lhe: – Quantos seriam demais? – Não sei... – disse ele – Acho que nos devemos limitar a uns cinco ou seis. Mal podia acreditar no que ouvia.”
“God made your body with the capacity to feel physical consequences of the mental events occurring in your mind. In fact, he made your body capable of picking up on extremely subtle cues from the environment and other people, and even spiritual realities beyond the material world. God designed the body to act like a radar, detecting movements within and without to help you make informed decisions about your life.”
“The beauty and the hope here is that who we are cannot be diminished by who we think we are.”
“Behind Boromir's testimony lurks something else that our modern world is desperately in need of: a sense that we live in a meaningful universe where nothing is accidental and where an overruling providence moves things forward in accordance with a higher plan. This promises as well that history is not merely a succession of unrelated events ("one darn thing after another"), but that it too is imbued with meaning, purpose, and direction. And if both the universe and history are meaningful, then perhaps we are as well.”
Group of Brands
© 2026 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
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.