Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.
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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
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I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.
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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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Humor is intrinsitc to Christianity.
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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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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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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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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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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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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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Hope is passion for what is possible.
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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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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.