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Firsts Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized…
- God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing
- ...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If…
- 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…
- When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your…
- It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too…
- The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards…
- During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the…
- To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
- During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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