And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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What labels me, negates me.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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 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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