Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• I'm very humble.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Humble
  • Very

• I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Life
  • Age
  • Early

• You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Forever
  • Stupid
  • Knows

• Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Grace
  • Supernatural

• If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Age

• I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Up
  • Sports

• The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.

  

  T. S. Matthews
  • Daily

• Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Passion

• The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Years
  • Fifty

• He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.

  

  Catherine of Genoa
  • Soul
  • Imagine
  • Impossible

• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Sin
  • Despair
  • Separation