The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDListen 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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I am convinced that God is love.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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 very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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