Peter Kreeft Quotes

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

Our view is that there is truth and holiness in other religious faiths. Our view is that there are many paths to God

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.