Peter Kreeft Quotes

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

Feare nothing but sinne.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.