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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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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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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 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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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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A poet is not an apostle he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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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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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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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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The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
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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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Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
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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 absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
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