Peter Kreeft Quotes

To be able to lean back on my faith and to realize that God's plan is way bigger than mine. You have to trust in that.

Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

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

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

A lot of people can talk about their faith. When you live it every day and act on the word of God, it's pretty cool to see.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.