You Can Understand The Bible Quotes

“Catholics have seldom had the difficulties and embarrassments many Protestants have had about creation vs. evolution. Ever since Augustine, they have interpreted Genesis‘ “days” non-literally.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“Thus, though Christians are in no way bound by the Jewish ceremonial or civil laws (because they were all in some way preparatory for Christ), we are still under the Ten Commandments in one way, though not in two other ways.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“Only Judaism and Christianity are religions of public record, eyewitnessed facts.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure,”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel’s flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (symbolized by Pharaoh), through the sea (death) and the wilderness (Purgatory) to the promised land (Heaven).”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“The two most popular forms of this are the Oriental form of ignoring real physical evils by creating a mystical inner paradise through yoga and meditation,”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final meaning of our daily work.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible

“Almost always, the more intelligent, clever, and original you are, the more bored you are by Proverbs. It tells you nothing you didn’t know before. It is a book of platitudes, of old, well-worn truisms. It is, simply, dull. Yes, that is how the most “advanced” minds see Proverbs. And our nation, our civilization, and our world are today threatened with destruction precisely because of the ideas of those “advanced” minds, because we have departed from the old platitudes. If there is anything our civilization needs in order to survive the threat of moral and spiritual and perhaps physical destruction, it is to return to these “safe”, “dull” platitudes. For they are true. They are a road map to life, and we are lost in the woods.”
― peter kreeft, You Can Understand The Bible: A Practical And Illuminating Guide To Each Book In The Bible

“It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.”
― Peter Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical and Illuminating Guide to Each Book in the Bible