Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The door to happiness opens outward.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Hope is passion for what is possible.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard