Kierkegaard Quotes
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.
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.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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
It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe
...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
