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#1

“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.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

tags: god, redemption, saints, sinners

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#2

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

tags: philosophy

561 likes

#3

“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.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#4

“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 A. Kierkegaard

tags: bible, christianity, god, pride

443 likes

#5

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#6

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: belief

359 likes

#7

“It is impossible to exist without passion”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#8

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

256 likes

#9

“...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

199 likes

#10

“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”
― Søren Kierkegaard

168 likes

#11

“My sorrow is my castle.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#12

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

tags: ethics, hope, passion, philosophy, possibility, religion

158 likes

#13

“Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: inspirational-religious

125 likes

#14

“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

101 likes

#15

“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: melancholy

107 likes

#16

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

12746 likes

#17

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion

11249 likes

#18

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: faith, god, hope, love

5925 likes

#19

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom

5216 likes

#20

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: faith, future, god, trust

4130 likes

#21

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148482 likes

#22

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114431 likes

#23

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74388 likes

#24

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13377 likes

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