Peter Kreeft, Jesus-shock

Quotes

• “If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then ...”
• “Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. N...”
• “Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics ...”
• “It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone...”
• “Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thir...”
• “The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man,...”
• “This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfuln...”
• “By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's ico...”
• “The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and ...”
• “The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connectio...”
• “God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye t...”
• “We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible exce...”
• “The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life inter...”
• “Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited ...”
• “It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”
• “Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons.”
• “It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.”
• “Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”
• “Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.”
• “Love gives you eyes.”