The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
Peter KreeftAtheism 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 KreeftNo emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
Peter KreeftHow will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
Peter KreeftAtheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
Peter KreeftTrusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
Peter Kreeft