God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
When you teach children that the life here below is nothing to the life above, that to be visible is nothing in comparison with… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
“Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself." Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one." Svava: "Rule number… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
