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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.
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You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.
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Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.
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Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
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Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
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The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman and there is only one relationship possible: faith.
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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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To be a saint is to will the one thing.
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On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
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