Peter Kreeft Quotes

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

The Virgin Birth is possible if there is a God. An Omnipotent Being who can do all things and yet cannot do some things is hardly worth our attack or defence.

If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

I believe in divine intervention.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.

God raises the level of the impossible.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

I wish to work miracles.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

The impossible happens.

Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.