{"author":"Peter Kreeft","author_id":"Peter+Kreeft","total_quotes":84,"quotes":[{"text":"The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["culture","inspirational","saints"],"id":6331,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"Pilate's skeptical sneer 'What is truth?' was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christ","christianity","god","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-shock","philosophy","pontius-pilate","theology","truth"],"id":13047,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["god","justice","opportunity "],"id":16948,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["logic","philosophy","rhetoric"],"id":23537,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["conscience","god","soul"],"id":35906,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, 'I am.' We are ontological oxymorons.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["catholicism","christianity","god","jesus-shock","ontological-oxymoron","ontology","oxymoron","philosophy","spirituality","theology"],"id":38369,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must renounce this too, this especially. God's world is not the problem; our attitude is. God does not want us to renounce the unspeakably beautiful world he gave us as creation, as gift, as it really is. He wants us to renounce it as creator, as our god, as it really is not. This wonderful world is our God-given house to live in and to live the love of God in. But God's bride must learn not to love her house as if it were her husband.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["belief","faith","god","perspective"],"id":39420,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["absence-of-god","catholicism","christianity","deism","deist","god","jesus-shock","philosophy","presence-of-god","theism","theist","theology"],"id":39704,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["hope","hopelessness","humanity","peter-kreeft"],"id":51705,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["faith","god","prayer"],"id":52637,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":84,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}