Peter Kreeft Quotes

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

The cross alone is our theology.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Pain is the kiss of Christ.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.