Peter Kreeft quote: "We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'."

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT

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

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the ti...
PETER KREEFT

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by...
PETER KREEFT

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness ...
PETER KREEFT

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to es...
PETER KREEFT

Love gives you eyes.
PETER KREEFT

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder....
PETER KREEFT

The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.
PETER KREEFT

The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. He [C.S. Lewis] says elsewhere th...
PETER KREEFT

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore ...
PETER KREEFT

Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true my...
PETER KREEFT

No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hat...
PETER KREEFT

If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: ...
PETER KREEFT

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our comm...
PETER KREEFT

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of...
PETER KREEFT

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see bu...
PETER KREEFT

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave a...
PETER KREEFT

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the re...
PETER KREEFT

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God...
PETER KREEFT

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely...
PETER KREEFT

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
PETER KREEFT

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is li...
PETER KREEFT

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in...
PETER KREEFT

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb u...
PETER KREEFT

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in fr...
PETER KREEFT

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
PETER KREEFT

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or f...
PETER KREEFT

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only C...
PETER KREEFT

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
PETER KREEFT

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make...
PETER KREEFT

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman ...
PETER KREEFT

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
PETER KREEFT

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
PETER KREEFT

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.
PETER KREEFT

In reality, the damned are in the same place as the saved—in reality! But they hate it; it is thei...
PETER KREEFT

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go...
PETER KREEFT

The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him:...
PETER KREEFT

The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wan...
PETER KREEFT

But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe ...
PETER KREEFT

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at ...
PETER KREEFT

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the t...
PETER KREEFT

Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same...
PETER KREEFT

Zabuna o odnosu između poimanja osobe i čovjeka može uzrokovati golemu štetu. Američki Vrhovni ...
PETER KREEFT

If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize ...
PETER KREEFT

Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; onl...
PETER KREEFT

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it trea...
PETER KREEFT

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. T...
PETER KREEFT

Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL

Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES

Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK

It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON

When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON

Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS

The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS

I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER

Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK

Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN

Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE

Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID

Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN

We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS

There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV

We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID

Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL

Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL

Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV

The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intell...
PETER USTINOV

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER

All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
PETER WASTHOLM

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making fri...
PETER DRUCKER

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
PETER USTINOV

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

Peter Kreeft

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