If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God does, he does so in Christ. And precisely that is Christianity. The creation was really only completed when God included himself in it. Before the coming of Christ, God was certainly in the creation, but as an invisible sign, like the watermark in paper. But the creation was completed by the Incarnation because God thereby included himself in it.


Søren Kierkegaard

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Hims...
DALLAS WILLARD
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
MEISTER ECKHART
Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS
The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconcili...
JOHN WESLEY
Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconci...
JOHN WESLEY
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS
God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission an...
WILLIAM TEMPLE
If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?'
"The Torah tells us He has made...
NOAH GORDON
To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre...
H. A. IRONSIDE
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi...
WILLIAM LAW
The self-centered regret which a man feels when his sin has found him out -- the wish, compounded of...
JAMES DENNEY
The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ d...
A.W. TOZER
Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 It is clear that he does not pray, wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS
In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h...
DALLAS WILLARD
...the incarnation is the complete refutation of every human system and institution that claims to c...
MICHAEL SPENCER
I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his crea...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Even the very creation broke silence at His behest and, marvelous to relate, confessed with one voic...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre...
H. A. IRONSIDE
A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or becaus...
WILLIAM LAW
Then this God does exist according to you?"
"He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there i...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal...
ANTHONY DE MELLO
Some say God created the world out of loneliness. Others say the world was created because the Almig...
R. MARK LIEBENOW
What was God doing before the divine creation?
STEPHEN HAWKING
Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
Love does not inquire into the character of the recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not lov...
EMIL BRUNNER
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human ...
LEO TOLSTOY
God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God...
POPE FRANCIS
She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is ...
SERAPHIM ROSE
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creatio...
DAVID BENTLEY HART
Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God...
BORIS PASTERNAK
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
MEISTER ECKHART
Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, Fi...
JOHN DONNE
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that ...
GOLDWIN SMITH
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
A. W. TOZER
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
AIDEN WILSON TOZER
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
A.W. TOZER
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
HERODOTUS
For man to turn his back on God is to turn towards death; it involves ultimately the renunciation of...
ROUSAS J. RUSHDOONY
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw...
MEISTER ECKHART
The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to...
ARTHUR MIDDLETON
The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the pat...
CRISS JAMI
If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce o...
YANN MARTEL
That's the date traditionally that Christ was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. When...
FATHER GREGORY HORTON
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J...
POPE FRANCIS
...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He di...
ARTHUR W. PINK
When a fellow finds the strength to tell of his problem, an apparent believer of God would say "God ...
JECON B. NADELA
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen...
OCTAVIO PAZ
Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and th...
MOHANDAS GANDHI
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but ...
C.S. LEWIS
In the Old Testament, we find the idea that God enters into the sufferings of His people. "In all th...
B. H. STREETER
An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER
No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, thr...
N.T. WRIGHT
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, ...
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be ...
KENNETH SCOTT LATOURETTE
There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came ...
C.S. LEWIS
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know wha...
JOS
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know wha...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventua...
JOHN POLKINGHORNE
Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al...
C. H. DODD
We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by th...
BEN ZOBRIST
The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as pr...
HERMAN BAVINCK
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
WALTER LANG
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork...
JAMES JOYCE
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork,...
JAMES JOYCE
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork,...
JAMES JOYCE
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet rec...
THOMAS MERTON
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or G...
EVEL KNIEVEL
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Pa...
FREDERICK F. BRUCE
Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not ...
JOYCE MEYER
Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Those who think God did this almost incredible ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha...
G.K. CHESTERTON
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. H...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around hi...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made t...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK
Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...
WENDELL BERRY
A major theme for Bonhoeffer was that every Christian must be "fully human" by bringing God into his...
ERIC METAXAS
There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, ...
KARL BARTH
This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concern...
EMIL BRUNNER
Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God...
THOMAS MERTON
God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
FREDERICK BUECHNER
In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR
Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary The Old Testament does not occupy itself...
BENJAMIN B. WARFIELD
In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only tw...
BHAGAT SINGH
Think about it. Before the creation of the world, before anything or anyone existed, there was a liv...
JON MORRISON
By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

More Søren Kierkegaard

To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind i...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall depri...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees an...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 Frightful this is in a sense, but it is...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find cour...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
"Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt an...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Lord Jesus Christ! A whole life long didst thou suffer that I too might be saved; and yet thy suffer...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no i...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If one could talk absolutely humanly about Christ, on...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
REN
More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
REN
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
REN
Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
REN
In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which...
REN
Most of man's problems in the modern world arise from the constant and unavoidable exposure to the s...
REN
Global thinking and local action both require understanding of ecological systems, but ecological ma...
REN
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
KIERKEGAARD
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
KIERKEGAARD
Once you label me you negate me.
KIERKEGAARD
Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
KIERKEGAARD
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use...
KIERKEGAARD
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD
A Swede quoting a Dane
KIERKEGAARD
The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong...
REN NG
It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all t...
REN NG
On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of ...
REN NG
Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make ph...
REN NG
I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance th...
REN NG
With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink ...
REN NG
With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn'...
REN NG
The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.
REN NG
It gives them more leverage. If your cost of goods is lower, you have more leverage to negotiate pri...
REN BENJAMIN
He shows her through a magnifying glass which he holds in a velvet glove.
REN GLASSER
Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new po...
REN NG
We demand the foreign national involved in such a marriage application be required to present his ta...
REN YUANZHENG
Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting ...
REN NG
If it weren't for Nokia, I would have thought about calling in sick. There was nobody in the city ye...
REN ZAMORA
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Ad...
REN MULFORD JR.
There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it to...
NOVA REN SUMA
Teenage girls know more than we're given credit for. We sense danger even when everyone's telling us...
NOVA REN SUMA
I could tell he wanted the best for me. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out. Everyone al...
NOVA REN SUMA
Fine. The next time that my life is destroyed, I'll try to express my distress in a quieter f...
COLLEEN HOUCK REN
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Be that self which one truly is.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not under...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My hones...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Don't forget to love yourself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet los...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We preten...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderh...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the m...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Once you label me you negate me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb crea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teachers that lo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Once you label me you negate me.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen bu...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so f...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can l...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot unders...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasion...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do thi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life…can only be understood backwards…
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; ever...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet unt...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Nothing, nothing, nothing, no error, no crime is so absolutely repugnant to God as everything which ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of s...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, th...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
What labels me, negates me.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highes...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD