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 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win 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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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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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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