Peter Kreeft Quotes

The Holy Trinity should be thought of as a Communion of Divine Persons—radiating his presence throughout creation, calling unworthy human beings to be his friends, and infusing into them his love so that they might love with it.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.

Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, “Only a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person.” Therefore it “has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.

If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.

To love God is something greater than to know Him.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.