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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
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The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman and there is only one relationship possible: faith.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.
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I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
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To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me, and about me.
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