Soren Kierkegaard quotes - page 12

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)
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. View quote
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Fate is a relation to spirit as external. View quote
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Who is to blame but her and the third factor, from whence no one knows, which moved me with its stimulus and transformed me? View quote
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The presence of the crucial either/or depends upon the individual's own impassioned desire directed toward acting decisively, upon the individual's own intrinsic competence, and therefore a competent man covets an either/or in every situation because he does not want anything more. View quote
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But God who creates out of nothing, who almightily takes from nothing and says, ‘Be', lovingly adjoins, ‘Be something even in apposition to me.' View quote
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So it happens at times that a person believes that he has a world-view, but that there is yet one particular phenomenon that is of such a nature that it baffles the understanding. View quote
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Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world. View quote
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Do not despair over every relapse, which the God of patience has the patience to forgive and under which a sinner certainly should have the patience to humble himself. View quote
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Now the issue is: will you be offended or will you believe. If you will believe, then you push through the possibility of offense and accept Christianity on any terms. So it goes; then forget the understanding; then you say: Whether it is a help or a torment, I want only one thing, I want to belong to Christ, I want to be a Christian. View quote
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Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself. (Soren Kierkegaard)
For the outward world is subjected to the law of imperfection, and again and again the experience is repeated that he too who does not work gets the bread, and that he who sleeps gets it more abundantly than the man who works. In the outward world everything is made payable to the bearer, this world is in bondage to the law of indifference, and to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it. View quote
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Christianity is an absolute. Christianity came into the world as the absolute, not, humanly speaking, for comfort; on the contrary, it continually speaks about how the Christian must suffer or about how a person in order to become and remain a Christian must endure sufferings that he consequently can avoid simply by refraining from becoming a Christian. View quote
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Father in heaven, when the thought of thee awakens in our soul. View quote
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Anxiety and nothing always correspond to each other. View quote
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Christianity is just as lenient as it is austere, just as lenient, that is to say, infinitely lenient. When the infinite requirement is heard and upheld, heard and upheld in all its infinitude, then grace is offered, or rather grace offers itself, and to it the individual, each for himself, as I also do, can flee for refuge. View quote
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It is not uncommon to hear a man who has become confused about what he should do in a particular situation complain about the unique nature of the situation, thinking that he could easily act if the situation were a great event with only one either/or. View quote
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What came first, the fruit-tree or the stone? View quote
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Any more discursive elaboration of the difference between the sexes or deliberation on which sex is superior is an idle intellectual occupation for loafers and bachelors. View quote
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When God chooses to let himself be born in lowliness. View quote
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Then I am able to pursue this one main idea and see how all the details serve to illuminate it. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Then anxiety stirs. He is tortured day and night with the thought that he might possibly be a father, that somewhere in the world there could be a created being who owed his life to him. He cannot share his secret with anyone; he does not even have any reliable knowledge of the fact. View quote
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I wonder if she wouldn't choose his miserable common sense rather than her wealth? View quote
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What the age needs is not a genius - it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. What the age needs is awakening. View quote
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Where is the boundary for the single individual in his concrete existence between what is lack of will and what is lack of ability; what is indolence and earthly selfishness and what is the limitation of finitude? View quote
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