Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The Bible is God's love letter to us.
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Future is everything that past has forgotten.
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
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Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
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The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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Men who not religious or artists are fools.