Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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 most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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