Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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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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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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