I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom — Sigrid Undset Education Copy Share Image
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. — Sigrid Undset Fate Copy Share Image
But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people. — Sigrid Undset Consequence Copy Share Image
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Kristin. You cannot settle for anything less than the love that is between God and the soul.” — Sigrid Undset Love Copy Share Image
I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot. — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“... with the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to… — Sigrid Undset Beer Copy Share Image
“God only knows how much of a man there will be left of you when you take stock of yourself twenty years… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to… — Sigrid Undset Book Copy Share Image
“Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God’s mercy is not great enough? . . .” — Sigrid Undset Arrogant Copy Share Image
Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“As your pierced hands were stretched out on the cross, O precious Lord of Heaven. No matter how far a soul might… — Sigrid Undset Justice Copy Share Image
“Human beings could not have done this work on their own. God’s spirit had been at work in holy Øistein and the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Don’t you remember, my sister, when the Devil tried to tempt Saint Martin? Then the Fiend asked Saint Martin whether he dared… — Sigrid Undset Compassion Copy Share Image
“Dear sister—all other love is merely a reflection of the heavens in the puddles of a muddy road. You will become sullied… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Her father’s marvelous gentleness was not because he lacked a keen enough perception of the faults and wretchedness of others; it came… — Sigrid Undset Father Copy Share Image
“And I don’t believe any maiden of good family and with an honorable and Christian upbringing would part so easily with her… — Sigrid Undset Family Copy Share Image
In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever… — Sigrid Undset Belief Copy Share Image
“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women… — Sigrid Undset Books Copy Share Image
“And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she… — Sigrid Undset Beauty Copy Share Image
“Jeg trodde jeg var skuffet – og jeg tenkte det var fordi jeg hadde lengtet så meget og drømt så meget, at… — Sigrid Undset Disappointment Copy Share Image
“Then it occurred to me that many of these people had suffered more than Christ himself. “I pondered this until I felt… — Sigrid Undset Courage Copy Share Image
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm… — Sigrid Undset Anguished Copy Share Image
“We know of course that the whole point is, the saints are not gods and never have been gods; even if they… — Sigrid Undset Saints Copy Share Image
“A woman has never been able to become a priest—she cannot even be a deacon, nor yet a chorister—but a woman can… — Sigrid Undset Church Copy Share Image
“Do you know who 'twas that first knew our Lord had caused Himself to be born? 'Twas the cock; he saw the… — Sigrid Undset Animals Copy Share Image
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe. — Sigrid Undset Europe Copy Share Image
No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love. — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom. — Sigrid Undset Education Copy Share Image
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared… — Sigrid Undset Dogma Copy Share Image
“God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image