Accepting Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.” quote by Soren Kierkegaard — Download Open image

“Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.”

Soren Kierkegaard

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Accepting Acknowledge Consequence Emergencies Hiding Hiding place Judas Kissing Loud Persons Truth Whole

More by Soren Kierkegaard

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, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

Soren Kierkegaard

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than…

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into…

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish for youth," said Mercury, "or for beauty, or power, or a long life; or do you wish for the most beautiful woman,…

Soren Kierkegaard

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has…

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a…

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

Be that self which one truly is.

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —…

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy…

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

Soren Kierkegaard

Image

Explore all 462 Soren Kierkegaard quotes

More Accepting quotes

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.…

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Image

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

Tupac Shakur

Image

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Alice Englert

Image

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if…

Ann Voskamp

Image

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

Stephen Colbert

Image

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

Anonymous

Image

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Image

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

Alan Abel

Image

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

Jay Griffiths