Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
Peter KreeftWe sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that itโs worth it, that it pays.
Peter KreeftOnly God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
Peter KreeftPrayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.
Peter KreeftIf the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.
Peter Kreeft