Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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