Jesus Shock Quotes

• We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Excess, Lack Of Love

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• This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Sacrificio, Ser, Dar

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• Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Boredom, Anorexia

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• 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 Kreeft

  Pain, Opposites, Interesting

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• Nuestra cultura nos ha llenado la cabeza pero nos ha vaciado el corazón, nos ha llenado la cartera pero nos ha dejado sin asombro. Ha alimentado nuestra sed de hechos, pero no de significado o misterio. Produce gente "agradable", no héroes.

  Peter Kreeft

  Nice, Hero, Heart

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• 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, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

  Peter Kreeft

  Heart, Men, Turns

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• Todo lo que es más pequeño que el Cielo nos aburre, porque sólo el Cielo es más grande que nuestro corazón.

  Peter Kreeft

  Fe, Inspiración, Corazón

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• Los que se encuentran con Jesús experimentan siempre o la alegría o sus contrarios, o los presentimientos del Cielo o los presentimientos del Infierno. No todos los que se encuentran con Jesús se alegran, y no todos son felices, pero todos quedan impactados.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Opposites, Joy

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• 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 became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

  Peter Kreeft

  Bored, Stuff, Poverty

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• It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

  Peter Kreeft

  Reason, Absolutes, Relative

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• If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Law, Forever

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• The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

  Peter Kreeft

  Art, Son, Connections

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• Dios nos da no sólo la verdad, sino también la capacidad de creerla; no sólo lo nuevo que hay que ver, sino también el ojo nuevo con el que verlo.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Eye, Giving

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• Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Unlimited Love, May, Goodness

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• Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

  Peter Kreeft

  Three, Answers, World

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• Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Practice, Absence, Theory

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• By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Inspirational, Motivational, Icons

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• It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Shakes, Reasonable

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