Peter Kreeft Quotes

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.