How to Be Holy Quotes

“Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of Heaven when you die.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, “Everything is grace.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“Love is supposed to bring us out of the dark prison of the “my will be done” ego into the joys of “thy will be done”, both horizontally and vertically, toward both the human and the divine Other.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“Seek and you shall find” does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that which God is: “God is agapē.” That is why all who seek it find it. De Caussade says: “If you search for this kingdom where God alone rules, you can be quite sure you will find it” (p. 112).”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“Heidegger says that “the fundamental question of metaphysics” is “why is there anything at all rather than nothing?” The fundamental question is not, as Plato thought, “what” a thing is (every Platonic dialogue is about that, about an essence, a definition, a concept, such as justice or piety or learning) but why it exists, why anything exists. Plato never asked that ultimate question. And the answer is God.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“De Caussade makes this matter of duty very simple, too, as he makes everything simple: “We have two duties to fulfill: we must actively seek to carry God’s will into effect and passively accept all that his will sends us” (p. 73). That’s all. That’s it.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“All the way to Heaven is Heaven”, said Saint Catherine of Siena. We”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint

“God’s Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the “dry” times, not the “high” times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint