Peter Kreeft Quotes

“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.”
― Peter Kreeft

“I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.”
― Peter Kreeft, The Sea Within: Waves and the Meaning of All Things

“Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue with you. But if you call it a platitude, I can only pity you, for that means you have never listened to it.”
― peter kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“...the most effective argument against abortion is simply to see one. That is why the most common operation in America is the only one never seen on any TV or movie screen.”
― Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Jesus

“Nothing quite like it was ever done before.... Probably no book yet written in the world is quite such a radical instance of what its author has else where called "sub-creation."...Not content to create his own story, he creates, with an almost insolent prodigality, the whole world in which it is to move, with its own theology, myths, geography, history, paleography, languages, and orders of beings-- a world "full of strange creatures beyond count." The names alone are a feast.... You can hardly put your foot down anywhere...without stirring the dust of history.”
― C.S. Lewis