It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

— Peter Kreeft

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

— Peter Kreeft

It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of "how's"; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise, it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!

— Peter Kreeft

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Peter Kreeft

Love gives you eyes.

— Peter Kreeft

Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the greatest good. If you have no greatest good, you have no hierarchy, you have no priorities. If you have no priorities, you cannot make intelligent choices. If you cannot make intelligent moral choices, you have no morality. You can still guide your life by your feelings or by social fashions, but that is not choice – not free, responsible, moral choice. Both feelings and fashions push you; you are passive. But moral choice is your own doing; you are active. You are responsible for your choices but not for your feelings or for your environment’s fashions.

— Peter Kreeft

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.

— Peter Kreeft

Music is more powerful than reason in the soul. That is also why Plato made music the very first step in his long educational curriculum: good music was to create the harmony of soul that would be a ripe field for the higher harmony of reason to take root in later. And that is also why he said that the decay of the ideal state would begin with a decay in music. In fact, one of your obscure modern scholars has shown that social and political revolutions have usually been preceded by musical revolutions, and why another sage said, 'Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who writes its laws.

— Peter Kreeft

No books are more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze.

— Peter Kreeft