There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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