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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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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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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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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