Peter Kreeft Quotes

Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

What goes on in the world and who's defining what is right or wrong in anything? Is there a place in any of our existence where we need judgment any longer? But we should have empathy towards each other and break away from those categories that politics and religion keep throwing back at us.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

He who hates vice hates men.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

If a person is gay and accepts the Lord, who am I to judge them.

Nobody is all good or bad.

Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.

Tolerance as practiced by the Christian, enlightened West was never about thinking that bad people are good but that we are all called to love the sinner and hate the sin.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.