Peter Kreeft Quotes

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

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

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.

I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little!

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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.

Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer