Making Sense Out of Suffering Quotes

“Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life. Here”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Haven’t you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that the very first bit of wisdom and the prerequisite for all others is the realization that we are not wise”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“No happiness on earth can be deeper than the happiness that comes from our willing and active submission to God’s will even when he wills suffering.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“He came. That is the salient fact, the towering truth, that alone keeps us from putting a bullet through our heads. He came.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Our only qualification for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous but the sinners.' (Mk 2:17). Similarly, on an infinitely lower level, this book is for empty hearts, not full ones.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Even saints do not smile sweetly when God throws them into mud puddles. Only pigs do that.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“It’s the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers—which is even sillier, because that’s like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That’s only cowardice.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Kindness—mere kindness—cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“As C.S. Lewis says, “God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Furthermore, the most popular modern answer to the question of what it means to be a good person is to be kind. Do not make other people suffer. If it doesn’t hurt anyone, it’s O.K. By this standard, God is not good it he lets us suffer. But by ancient standards, God might be good even though he lets us suffer, if he does it for the sake of the greater end of happiness, perfection of life and character and soul, that is, self.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“St. Augustine says, “If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Reader: Why would an unbeliever read you?/
Author: For the same reason a believer should read an unbeliever. If you know only what you know, you don't even know that. You understand things only by contrast. Why should a Republican listen to a Democrat? Why should people who disagree dialog with each other?”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

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― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern mind, the cardinal problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Suffering together builds togetherness, and if togetherness is more important for us and for our joy than freedom from suffering is, then God is good to allow this suffering.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“One of Beethoven’s biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who’s”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Some say that to the gods we are like flies that boys idly swat on a summer day. Others say that not a feather from a sparrow falls to the ground without the will of the Heavenly Father.” Those are the only two options.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“Socrates’ point is that there are only two kinds of people in this world: the wise, who know they are fools, and fools, who think they are wise. Wisdom,”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering