It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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 self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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