Peter Kreeft Quotes

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I cry and pray and try to find the positive or the lesson for my pain.

I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

What was once your pain, will be your home.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.