Top 300 Peter Kreeft Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man’s head because she turns his heart.”

— Peter Kreeft

52. “It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.”

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53. “The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.”

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54. “Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What’s there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s in charge here? Who’s the author? That’s what we really long to know.”

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55. “The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”

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56. “Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God’s eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God’s multicolored love story. History is His story.”

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57. “Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.”

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58. “There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.”

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59. “Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.”

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60. “Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.”

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61. “Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.”

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62. “Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.”

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63. “Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.”

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64. “Original sin is the proclivity to say “my will be done” instead of “thy will be done.””

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65. “We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.”

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66. “A God who did not abolish suffering-worse, a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.”

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67. “The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.”

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68. “When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.”

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69. “The most compelling evidence for God’s existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.”

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70. “Love is the binding force on every level of existence.”

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71. “Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?”

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72. “Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.”

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73. “Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.”

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74. “Pilate’s skeptical sneer “What is truth?” was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world’s stupidest question was three words; God’s profoundest answer was one Word.”

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75. “Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness.”

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76. “The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.”

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77. “You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.”

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78. “To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.”

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79. “God’s wraith is really only the face of love refused.”

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80. “We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:.”

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81. “A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.”

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82. “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.”

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83. “Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself – and perhaps even through human reason?”

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84. “If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.”

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85. “Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.”

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86. “It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”

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87. “Great saints are never wimps.”

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88. “Socrates: “The corruption of the best things are the worst things.” Or, “The best, when corrupted, become the worst.” As one of your English poets has said, “Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

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89. “Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.”

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90. “Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.”

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91. “If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.”

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92. “Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real.”

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93. “Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.”

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94. “It is said that there are three sources of evil, “the world, the flesh, and the Devil”; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.”

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95. “Grey is the devil’s favorite color.”

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96. “God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great music suggests some profound truth or mysterious meaning that is objectively true but not translatable into words.”

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97. “God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.”

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98. “Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a ‘test’ as all opportunities are tests.”

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99. “Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.”

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100. “Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.”

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