Top 300 Peter Kreeft Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.”

— Peter Kreeft

52. “Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

54. “God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.”

— Peter Kreeft

55. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

58. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

59. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

60. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

62. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

66. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

68. “Corruptio optimi pessima.” The corruption of the best things are the worst things.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

70. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

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

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73. “The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

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

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77. “Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.”

— Peter Kreeft

78. “If you didn’t believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.”

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79. “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?”

— Peter Kreeft

80. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

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

— Peter Kreeft

83. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

84. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

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

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87. “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:.”

— Peter Kreeft

88. “Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

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

— Peter Kreeft

91. “God’s solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father’s love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that’s the heart of the Christian story.”

— Peter Kreeft

92. “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?”

— Peter Kreeft

93. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft

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

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

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

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97. “Great saints are never wimps.”

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98. “God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.”

— Peter Kreeft

99. “In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away.”

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100. “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.”

— Peter Kreeft