Peter Kreeft Catholic Quotations

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

You cannot be in love with love.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.