PETER KREEFT

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

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.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

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

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

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.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

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.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

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.

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.