Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft
Peter John Kreeftis a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
real self giving
When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
pain opposites interesting
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
bored stuff poverty
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
alive life-is
Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
kings prayer mean
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
world speak argument
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."
jesus excess lack-of-love
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
atheist powerful atheism
Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
brother doors reconcile
When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
philosophy long religion
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.
want saint praying
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
life humanity doe
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.
two today world
Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.
religion way scientific-method
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.