To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIf 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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHappiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMany of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHow absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLife can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLeap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTherefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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