Bjornstjerne Bjornson quotes

Bjornstjerne Bjornson was a Norwegian writer, poet, and playwright, renowned as a key figure in Norwegian literature and nationalism. His works often explored themes of rural life, identity, and social justice. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature and is remembered as one of Norway's greatest cultural icons. Here are 7 of his quotes:

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson