Quotes about Kreeft

The universal sin Saint Paul pinpoints in Romans 1:18 is to suppress the truth.

Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.

we are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason.

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:

There—fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will.

The world thinks men are good and saints are better. Pascal knows men are sinners and saints are miracles.

we are already wholly by his right, but because of sin we are not yet wholly his in fact because we do not wholly will what we are right.

As Francis Thompson wrote in his classic poem "The Hound of Heaven," "Is my gloom, after all, shade of His hand outstretched caressingly?