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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.

Soren Kierkegaard

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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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Deep Great Loss
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand
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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Beautiful Deep Heard High Life Live Read
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Believe Eyes God Great Philosophy Religion Sin Trouble
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
What labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
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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Afraid Deep Inspirational Man Philosophy
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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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Life Problem Reality
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer

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