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He who is not alone with God’s word is not reading God’s word.
~ in For Self-Examination
If it is true that you know how to describe faith, it only proves that you are a poet, and if you can do it well, it proves that you are a good poet; but this is far from proving that you are a believer. Perhaps you can also weep in describing faith, that would prove then that you are a good actor.
~ in For Self-Examination
It is my joy that the female sex, far from being more imperfect than man, is on the contrary the most perfect.
~ in Stages on Life’s Way
Longbridge gets its name from its length, for as a bridge it is long, though as a road the length of the bridge is not very considerable, of which one can convince oneself by crossing it.
~ Quidam, in Soren Kierkegaard’s Stages on Life’s Way
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, “Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.
~ quoted by Madeleine L’Engle, in A Circle of Quiet
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.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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