Peter Kreeft Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

2. God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with. Jesus-Shock

3. One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth. Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

4. Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. Jesus-Shock

5. We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

6. God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first. Prayer For Beginners

7. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead. Prayer For Beginners

8. In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply space.

9. Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness. Prayer For Beginners

10. Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

11. When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it. Socratic Logic