More quotes by Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

"The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting."
"Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us."
"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."
"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons."
"The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty."