Peter Kreeft Quotes

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ's voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are 'filled.'.

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.