Peter Kreeft

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

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

The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.