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.
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.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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