Peter Kreeft Quotes

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

If we can develop the character and work with God, then let him develop the character of Christ in us, we're going to become the best possible husband, the best possible wife.

Our productivity in the kingdom of God is directly related to our character and our Christ-likeness.

I am someone without an ego.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.