God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen and who… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share