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Orthodox Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated…
- ...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology -…
- It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you…
- ...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…
- The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it…
- Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried,…
- ...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He…
- ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It…
- 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…
- ...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart...
- 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,…
- The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which…
- 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.…
- ...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…
- 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…
- ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
- 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…
- ...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…
- ...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…
- ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. — Samuel Butler
- I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and… — Marina Abramovic
- (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan
- If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead
- [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell
- We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman
- Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll