Peter Kreeft Quotes

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.