There can be no faith without risk. — Soren Kierkegaard

Without risk, faith is an impossibility. — Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a man. — Soren Kierkegaard

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. — Soren Kierkegaard

Certainty… lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it. — Soren Kierkegaard

To have faith is precisely To lose one’s mind so as To win God. — Soren Kierkegaard

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher. — 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

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction. — Soren Kierkegaard

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith–when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith–this [is] subjectivity … at its height. — Soren Kierkegaard

Hope is passion for what is possible. — Soren Kierkegaard

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones. — Soren Kierkegaard

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. — Soren Kierkegaard

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party. — Soren Kierkegaard

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose. — Soren Kierkegaard

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion. — 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 appearances. — Soren Kierkegaard

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited. — Soren Kierkegaard

Whoever has the world’s treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise. — Soren Kierkegaard

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. — Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person. — Soren Kierkegaard

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation’s relating itself to itself in the relation. — Soren Kierkegaard

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. — Soren Kierkegaard

In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual — Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. — Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of heart is to will one thing. — Soren Kierkegaard

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. — Soren Kierkegaard

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. — Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. — Soren Kierkegaard

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible–there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform. — Soren Kierkegaard

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity. — 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

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby–horse and trumpet. — Soren Kierkegaard

Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books … but in fuller immersion in existence. — Soren Kierkegaard

I must find a truth that is true for me. — Soren Kierkegaard

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. — Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. — Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. — Soren Kierkegaard

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing. — Soren Kierkegaard

A man’s personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam’s ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is wretched to have an abundance of intentions and a poverty of action, to be rich in truths and poor in virtues. — Soren Kierkegaard

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth. — Soren Kierkegaard

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished. — Soren Kierkegaard

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non–truth. — Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way… Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. — Soren Kierkegaard

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is. — Soren Kierkegaard

During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. — Soren Kierkegaard

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. — Soren Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward. — Søren Kierkegaard

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’. — Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. — Soren Kierkegaard

He who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth. — Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. — Soren Kierkegaard

If I could only have the experience of meeting a passionate thinker, that is, someone who honestly and honorably expressed in his life what he has understood! — Soren Kierkegaard

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

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. — Soren Kierkegaard

There are many people who arrive at conclusions in life much the way schoolboys do; they cheat their teachers by copying the answer book without having worked the problem themselves. — Soren Kierkegaard

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain–thus the beginning has its difficulty. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? — Soren Kierkegaard

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die. — Soren Kierkegaard

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. — Soren Kierkegaard

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Soren Kierkegaard

There is something almost cruel about the Christian’s being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do. — Soren Kierkegaard

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? — Soren Kierkegaard

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard–Christ is risen! — Soren Kierkegaard

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. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is one thing to introduce a new doctrine into the world, it is something else to live it. — Soren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean? — Soren Kierkegaard

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

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together. — Soren Kierkegaard

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God. — Soren Kierkegaard

For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child. — Soren Kierkegaard

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. — Soren Kierkegaard

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. — Soren Kierkegaard

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament. — Soren Kierkegaard