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A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

Soren Kierkegaard
Vision, Hints, Possibility

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

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Bible, Biblical, Talking

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

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Easter, Christ, Funny Easter

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

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Risk, Losing, Moments

... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Perfect, Needs

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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Inspirational, Life, Teacher

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

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Solitude, Spirit, Longing

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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Inspirational, Men, Heartache

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

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Love, Heartbreak, Cheating

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

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Love Is, Equal, Triumphant

Be that self which one truly is.

Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge, Self, Individuality
Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

The Bible is God's love letter to us

Soren Kierkegaard
Letters, Love Letter, God's Love

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

Soren Kierkegaard
Hiking, Entrepreneur, Desire

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Soren Kierkegaard
Believe, Men, Ideas

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

Soren Kierkegaard
Eye, Men, Thinking

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

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Men, Self, Two
"The Sickness Unto Death". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, "A. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death", 1849.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

Soren Kierkegaard
Years, Confusing, Eternity
Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

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Life, Motivational, Adventure

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

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Spiritual, Two, People

...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

Soren Kierkegaard
Men, Being Real, Messages

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

Soren Kierkegaard
Life, Book, People
"Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (January 17, 1837), 1959.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

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Safety, Advice, Port

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

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Teacher, Students, Learners

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

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Faith, Religious, Passionate

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Soren Kierkegaard
Truth, Crowds, Praise
Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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