Christianity Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

— Soren Kierkegaard

Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

— Soren Kierkegaard

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“He who first invented the notion of defending Christianity is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind…

— Soren Kierkegaard

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this…

— Soren Kierkegaard

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to…

— Soren Kierkegaard

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity…

— Soren Kierkegaard

...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then…

— Soren Kierkegaard