Peter Kreeft Quotes

I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

The object of love is to serve, not to win