For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARDFace the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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My sorrow is my castle.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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And 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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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