Peter Kreeft Quotes

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce back when we thought we were completely defeated, a capacity to grow and change, a power of creative transformation.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.

Great saints are never wimps.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

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

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.