Peter Kreeft Quotes

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart

If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'