Top 263 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Kreeft - Page 5

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

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.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

You cannot be in love with love.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

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.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.