Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
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What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.
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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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For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
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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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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
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No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.
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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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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow.
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
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Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
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Humor is intrinsitc to Christianity.
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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
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Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.
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Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?