The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
