Christianity for Modern Pagans Quotes

“Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

“The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained

“If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained

“Good apologists are not teachers but pointers to the Teacher.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained

“This is one reason why modern people are so unprepared for death: death is the one thing society can’t do for you, the one thing that forces you to confront your trans-social self. We live as “the lonely crowd”, but we die one at a time.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

“We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained

“Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained

“Pascal can only stammer and weep like a child. There are no “adult Christians”. It is an oxymoron. The higher we climb, the more childlike we are. Perhaps the profoundest possible prayer, perfectly appropriate for the deepest depths of sorrow and despair and the highest heights of mystical graces of joy, is simply “Jesus, I love you; Jesus, I love you”, again and again forever.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

“The “true place” we have fallen from is first of all God and our Edenic relation with him.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained

“When we love a dog, we become more doggy, but when we know a dog, we raise it up to our own level: thought. When we know God, we drag him down to our anthropomorphic level, we make God more humanoid than he really is; but when we love God, we are raised up more closely to his level, we become more God-like than we were (for “God is love”).”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

“Both very liberal and very conservative Protestants are deeply threatened by Catholicism. For the liberals, “the only good Catholic is a bad Catholic”, as Fr. Rutler gibes. And for many fundamentalists, Catholics are pagans, not even Christians: Church-worshipers, Pope-worshipers, Mary-worshipers, saint-worshipers, superstition-worshipers, sacrament-worshipers, idol-worshipers, and works-worshipers.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

“We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained

“But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

“No man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence about how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

“We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God”
― Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained