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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Soren Kierkegaard

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is in your power to review your life, to look at things you saw before, but from another point of view — Soren Kierkegaard

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think. — Soren Kierkegaard

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual ... — Soren Kierkegaard

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. — Soren Kierkegaard

To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God. — Soren Kierkegaard

Once you label me you negate me. — Soren Kierkegaard

.....love yourself. — Soren Kierkegaard

There can be no faith without risk. — Soren Kierkegaard

Where there are two people, there is untruth. — Soren Kierkegaard

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. — Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy. — Soren Kierkegaard

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise. — Soren Kierkegaard

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and
get under way. — Soren Kierkegaard

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. — Soren Kierkegaard

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return. — Soren Kierkegaard

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either. — Soren Kierkegaard

The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. — Soren Kierkegaard

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love — Soren Kierkegaard

There is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will. — Soren Kierkegaard

My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction. — Soren Kierkegaard

All comparisons injure. — Soren Kierkegaard

I am a fork, and I will stick you! — Soren Kierkegaard

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. — Soren Kierkegaard

Confidence is the present tense of hope. — Soren Kierkegaard

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality. — Soren Kierkegaard

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him. — Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able. — Soren Kierkegaard

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself. — Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is. — Soren Kierkegaard

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. — Soren Kierkegaard

People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger. — Soren Kierkegaard

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved. — Soren Kierkegaard

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. — Soren Kierkegaard

Take it and return it: the kiss of love. — Soren Kierkegaard

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. — Vernon Howard

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. — Soren Kierkegaard

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited. — Soren Kierkegaard

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. — Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. — Soren Kierkegaard

Don't forget to love yourself. — Soren Kierkegaard

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. — Soren Kierkegaard

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. — Soren Kierkegaard

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it. — Soren Kierkegaard

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception. — Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God. — Soren Kierkegaard

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. — Soren Kierkegaard

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians. — Soren Kierkegaard

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God — Soren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean? — Soren Kierkegaard

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole. — Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal — Soren Kierkegaard

How to explain Time and Separateness back to God, Who had never thought of them, Who could let the whole world come to grief in a scattering moment? — Eudora Welty

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. — Soren Kierkegaard

I must find a truth that is true for me. — Soren Kierkegaard

The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember. — Soren Kierkegaard

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". — Soren Kierkegaard

I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side. — Soren Kierkegaard

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard

The door to happiness opens outward. — Soren Kierkegaard

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. — Soren Kierkegaard

As Kierkegaard said, "To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. — Brian Zahnd

For faith is this paradox, that the particular is higher than the universal — Soren Kierkegaard

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd. — Soren Kierkegaard

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge. — Soren Kierkegaard

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. — Soren Kierkegaard

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow — Soren Kierkegaard

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. — Soren Kierkegaard

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing. — Soren Kierkegaard

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do. — Soren Kierkegaard

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. — Soren Kierkegaard

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. — Soren Kierkegaard

In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual — Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy — Soren Kierkegaard

The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial. — Soren Kierkegaard

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity. — Soren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. — Soren Kierkegaard

To dare is to momentarily lose one's footing.
But not to dare is to lose one's self. — Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every
generation may not come that far, but none comes further. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him. — Soren Kierkegaard

I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life's mean pettinesses. — Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have. — Soren Kierkegaard

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth. — Soren Kierkegaard

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask ... — Soren Kierkegaard

For our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water. — Soren Kierkegaard

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient. — Soren Kierkegaard

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. — Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity. — Soren Kierkegaard

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. — Soren Kierkegaard

People do not know what they ought to say but only that they must say something. — Soren Kierkegaard

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it — Soren Kierkegaard