755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy...

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes – but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.

Worship isn’t God’s show. God is the audience. God’s watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success – but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

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

The Bible is God’s love letter to us.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do.

Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.