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It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

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Blessed, Giving, Able

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

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Atheism, Demand, Christianity

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

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World, Unhappiness, Easier

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

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Important, Knows

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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Prayer, Mean, Waiting

I must find a truth that is true for me.

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Happiness, Success
Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund, August 31, 1835.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

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Doe, Deceived, Suspects

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

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Despair, Hiding, Hiding Place

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

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Self, Fishing, Monsters

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

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Dangerous, Acquaintance, Discernment

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

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Reflection, Leap Of Faith, Leap

Hope is a passion for the possible.

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Passion

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

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Truth, Desire, Majority

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

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Wings, Ideas, People

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

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Running, Want, Herds

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

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Stupid, Looks, Photograph

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

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Faith, Religious, Political Will

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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Life, Life Lesson, Force

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

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Life, Soul, Shadow
"Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 168), 2013.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

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Deceiving, Deceiver

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

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Men, God Love, Humans
"The Sickness unto Death". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1849.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

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Love, Giving, Unconditional

The God that can be named is not God.

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You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

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Live Life, Looking Forward, Looking Back

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

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Believe, Love Is, Deceived

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