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
love giving challenges
There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.
god color white
Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
baseball self games
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.
catholic spirit holy
Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.
giving catholic want
I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.
catholic
You cannot be in love with love.
prayer catholic dinner
Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
faith inspiration fire
Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
faith song inspiration
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
faith block inspiration
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.
faith inspiration soul
Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.
cat evil needs
Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.
wise dog men
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.
voice soul voice-of-god
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.