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
faith flower love-is
Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one; the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.
attitude indifference
Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.
faith flower love-is
Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.
faith rain destiny
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
sleep apes oxymoron
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
faith rough-times eternity
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
attitude mind modern
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
god school world
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.
god wise symphony
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
beautiful hope heaven
In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.
gratitude joy
Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.
god gods-love
To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.
god wrath fool
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.
love mean heart
A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.