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To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
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Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.
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Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.
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Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
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