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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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