Philosophy Quote by Peter Kreeft — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”

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

“Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.”

“We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.”

“Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.”

“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.”

“We are not born to consume; we are born to create.”

“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”

“When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.”

“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”

“He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.”