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
mean opportunity justice
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
doe fool christ
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
faith inspiration heart
Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.
faith inspiration together-again
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
love kindness suffering
Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.
stupid mistake thinking
It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.
catholic three-things lovers
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
heart men turns
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
faith inspiration joy
There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
dog serious fart
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
opposites atheism theism
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry
prayer love-is praying
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
pain simple listening-to-others
Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.
order catholic praying
You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.