"As my prayer became more attentive and inward,……" — Soren Kierkegaard
"As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard."
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Soren Kierkegaard
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358 Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard has 358 quotes on this site.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully…
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand…
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what…
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when…
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Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition…
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The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees…
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People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way…
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but…
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail…
— Charles Brent
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.…
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without…
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities…
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
— Francois Rabelais
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
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