And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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