Quotes About Kierkegaard Christianity

#1. There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of heresies and schisms.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. 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

#3. In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child's hobby-horse and trumpet.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Robin Hobb

#5. Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint's crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball.

Cole Alpaugh

#7. Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

John Amaechi

#9. The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we certainly come under judgement, but that the redeemer and the judge are the same.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)

Charles E. Moore

#11. My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.

Amy Sedaris

#13. Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. 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 Kierkegaard

#15. But think about how it feels when your hands are so cold they go numb. How it's only when they start to thaw out that you realize how much they hurt.

Lauren Wolk

#16. Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

Soren Kierkegaard

#17. When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

Soren Kierkegaard

#18. I don't like when I watch a fight in a movie that's perfectly worded and very articulate. If you were able to be that composed, you wouldn't be fighting! Fighting in real life is sloppy.

Jason Segel

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

Soren Kierkegaard

#20. He who first invented the notion of defending Christianity is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only his treachery is that of stupidity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#21. Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could feel. He wanted them dead, tortured, even. He wanted Chuck to be happy. But happiness had been ripped form their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.

James Dashner

#22. 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

#23. The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#24. 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

#25. Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

Soren Kierkegaard

#26. Besides, Christianity is not a doctrine to be taught, but rather a life to be lived.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Samuel Daniel

#28. To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Georg Brandes

#30. You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.

Toni Morrison

#31. The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

Soren Kierkegaard

#32. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

Soren Kierkegaard

#33. I know a star when I see one.

James Toback