To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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What labels me, negates me.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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