People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnd this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I am convinced that God is love.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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