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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity pleasure spirituality theology boredom catholicism jesus-shock
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
Peter KreeftTag: philosophy christianity heaven hell jesus spirituality theology catholicism jesus-christ christ shock jesus-shock meeting-jesus
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
Peter KreeftTag: philosophy christianity god spirituality theology ontology catholicism oxymoron jesus-shock ontological-oxymoron
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to Francis of Assisi or to George Herbert. To St. Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved.
G.K. ChestertonTag: nature catholicism catholic
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 KreeftTag: philosophy christianity god spirituality crazy theology catholicism reasonable jesus-shock
Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.
Mother AngelicaTag: faith catholicism catholic
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
Peter KreeftTag: philosophy christianity spirituality heroes theology culture catholicism culture-critique jesus-shock
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 KreeftTag: humor philosophy christianity apple bible sarcasm spirituality theology catholicism adam-and-eve genesis old-testament original-sin garden-of-eden mac forbidden-fruit macintosh jesus-shock apple-computer-inc steve-jobs laptop
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 to see it with.
Peter KreeftTag: truth philosophy christianity god faith spirituality theology catholicism jesus-shock
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 KreeftTag: inspirational love man woman philosophy christianity heart marriage relationships spirituality theology catholicism woman-s-charm woman-s-strength woman-s-character jesus-shock
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