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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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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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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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