Quotes from: Soren Kierkegaard

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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners

1417

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

1397

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

1376

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

1360

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed

1344

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly

1328

What labels me, negates me

1314

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true

1297

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

1277

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays