Quotes about Peter Kreeft
We make a big deal out of Christmas; we should make an even bigger deal out of March 25. The greatest event in history, the Incarnation, happened at the Annunciation, not the Nativity.
- Peter Kreeft
Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.
- Peter Kreeft
As C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.
- Peter Kreeft
Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.
- Peter Kreeft
If the unhappiness of the wicked angels comes at length to an end, the happiness of the good will also come to an end, which is inadmissible.
- Peter Kreeft
It's out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.
- Peter Kreeft
Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's
- Peter Kreeft
shows how fruitful analogies can be—not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.
- Peter Kreeft
8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.
- Peter Kreeft
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
- Peter Kreeft
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
- Peter Kreeft