“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.”1
“Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].”
“If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.”
“Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.”
“Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.”
“Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.”
“In every sin, we choose to believe the devil’s lie rather than God’s truth.”
“Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God’s eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God’s multicolored love story. History is His story.”
“There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.”
“Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.”
“Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice” people, not heroes.”
“We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.”
“Other religions are stories of man’s search for God. The Bible is the story of God’s search for man.”
“Christianity is God’s marriage proposal to the soul.”
“One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.”
“Atheism cheapens everything it touches-look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.”
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below:
Peter Kreeft (70+ Sourced Quotes) – Lib Quotes
Top 300 Peter Kreeft Quotes (2026 Update) – QuoteFancy