In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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If 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.
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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.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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