Peter Kreeft quotes

... condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. (Peter Kreeft)

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

Peter Kreeft

Kreeft calls the word "interesting": "that all-purpose meaningless euphemism."

Peter Kreeft

At exactly the time when the fatal knowledge of how to destroy the entire human race has fallen forever into out hands, the knowledge of morality has fallen out.

Peter Kreeft

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

The first existentialist was not Sartre, though he coined the term. Nor was it Kierkegaard or Nietzsche, though most of the textbooks say so. Nor was it even Pascal, though he foreshadowed half of Kierkegaard and was the first to write about the fundamental existential experience of cosmic anxiety and meaninglessness. It was not even Saint Augustine, whose Confessions stands out as the profoundest example of depth psychology and existential autobiography ever written. It was not even Socrates, who alone among philosophers totally existed his philosophy. Rather, the first existentialist was Solomon, or whoever wrote Ecclesiastes.

Peter Kreeft

Love unifies by individuating and individuates by unifying. At what moment do lovers come into the most perfect possession of themselves as individuals if not when they are most lost in each other? Self, is given up, but "he who loses his self will find it."

Peter Kreeft

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Peter Kreeft

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Peter Kreeft

Christ's divinity and lordship over one's life is the distinctive, essential faith of Christians: no non-Christian believes that (if he did, he would be a Christian), and all Christians believe it if they do not, they are not Christians.

Peter Kreeft

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find. (Peter Kreeft)

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

Love gives you eyes.

Peter Kreeft

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

Peter Kreeft

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

Peter Kreeft

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.

Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft

Occupation: American Educator
Born: March 16, 1937
Quotes count: 16
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