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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.
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Faith is the highest passion in a man.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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... all comparisons injure.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
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Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
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Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.
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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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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for without this life you really do not live.
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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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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
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