Peter Kreeft Quotes

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

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

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

That which we call sin in others, we call experiment in ourselves.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

There is a saying in India that the person who should throw a stone first is the person who has not committed any sins. In the world right now, a lot of people want to give advice. But look within them, and they too have sinned in some way. Ultimately, India's view point is that efforts need to be made to sit together and talk, and to resolve problems in an ongoing process.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Sex is not a sin. Many people have complained that this is taking all the fun out of sex.