The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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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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