Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
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Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this is subjectivity ... at its height.
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The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.
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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.
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I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.
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You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.
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You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Humor is intrinsitc to Christianity.
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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Hope is passion for what is possible.