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- It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For… Abraham
- ...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart... Almost Impossible
- Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,… Aberration
- The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which… Atheist
- When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised.… All
- ...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the… Absolutely
- Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is… Ambiguity
- ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will. All
- God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible… Battle
- ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on… Alas
- ...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has… Avoids
- ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience… All
- A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it… All
- Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so… Able
- For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith. Faith
- Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to… Eternal
- No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects,… Accused
- The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and… Crucial
- Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to… Addressed
- One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to… Any
- And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly… Accustomed
- Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. Able
- The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… Absolute
- May new sufferings torment your soul. New
- People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. Call
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