Quotes from Peter Kreeft

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17).

For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints.

His glory is to be our concern; our glory is His concern. That is what love is: a holy Exchange.

Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside

His divinity existed without His humanity before the Incarnation, but ever since the Incarnation His humanity is joined forever to His divinity. His Ascension was not the undoing of His Incarnation.

This is what God did in the Incarnation. Being became a being, the Subject became an object, God became a man, I AM became a He.

Our faith here can only be in God, not in our faith (that's presumption). He will never abandon us, but we can abandon Him. That's why we must be vigilant.

Play and mirth is also "necessary for the intercourse of human life" and "to cheer the heart of man". This is why God invented not just water but also wine (Ps 104:15).

all power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely").

our ego is not God. In fact, it is often wrong, because it is fallen, foolish, and faithless.