Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.
– Peter Kreeft
Faith
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
– Peter Kreeft
Atheism
Atheism cheapens everything it touches-look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
– Peter Kreeft
Atheism
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it’s just barely possible that God exists.
– Peter Kreeft
Atheism
How can a mere finite human being be sure that infinite wisdom would not tolerate certain short-range evils in order for more long-range goods that we can’t foresee.
– Peter Kreeft
Good and Evil
On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, ‘Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.’ The other turtle says ‘I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.’
– Peter Kreeft
Suffering | Service
Someone who knows God has evidence–and therefore prejudices based on that evidence–which someone who does not know God does not have.
– Peter Kreeft
God
If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
– Peter Kreeft
God
He’s what we really need. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation but for you to sit with him. He’s terrified of being alone more than anything else. So God has not left us alone.
– Peter Kreeft
Death | Friendship