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Faith Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe…
- Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ...…
- If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would…
- Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
- The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
- 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…
- For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
- Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those…
- The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
- Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
- The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and…
- If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish…
- What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
- For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
- And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
- to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
- Faith is the highest passion in a man.
- God is not like a human being; it is not important for God to have visible evidence so that he can see if his cause…
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine