For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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 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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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 most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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