Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDNow, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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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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What labels me, negates me.
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