Peter Kreeft Quotes

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.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

It is reasonable to love the absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

Love gives you eyes.

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.

We can’t avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Cats don’t need to be possessed; they’re evil on their own.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.