Peter Kreeft Quotes

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Your soul is between you and God.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.