Quotes from 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 moved.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
- Soren Kierkegaard
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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 little or much. Every person can do that.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
- Soren Kierkegaard
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
...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 devil cannot see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.
- Soren Kierkegaard