For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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