Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is… — 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… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did… — 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
