Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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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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