The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. Soren Kierkegaard hiding-placehidingdespair ...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. Soren Kierkegaard offeringchristiangiving There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc. Soren Kierkegaard abusebearswish Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard timepatiencehappiness A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and Soren Kierkegaard battleimportanthalf Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. Soren Kierkegaard funny-eastereasterchrist What labels me, negates me. Soren Kierkegaard labels The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher. Soren Kierkegaard teachingchristianteacher The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it. Soren Kierkegaard highest The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament. Soren Kierkegaard takenraceopposites And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope. Soren Kierkegaard hopechristiannight Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? Soren Kierkegaard questions-and-answersworld Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. Soren Kierkegaard smilegodchildren God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Soren Kierkegaard religiousgoddoe 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. Soren Kierkegaard happylyingreality People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Soren Kierkegaard understandinginspirationalpeople Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him. Soren Kierkegaard umpiresphilosophydirectors The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it. Soren Kierkegaard christiangivingway Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor. Soren Kierkegaard eyementhinking How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated by way of subjection and submissiveness. Do you want to try and demonstrate that the king exists? Will you do so by offering a string of proofs, a series of arguments? No. If you are serious, you will demonstrate the king's existence by your submission, by the way you live. And so it is with demonstrating God's existence. It is accomplished not by proofs but by worship. Any other way is but a thinker's pious bungling. Soren Kierkegaard offeringkingschristian
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