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My standpoint is armed neutrality.

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Neutrality, Standpoint

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The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

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Spiritual, Religious, Men

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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

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Music, Beautiful, Heart

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God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

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Fear, Thinking, Atheism

"Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1846.

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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

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Limits, Persons, Resourceful

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

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Life, Life Lesson, Force

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

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Christian, Teacher, Teaching

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

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Simple, Way, Christianity

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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

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Faith, Religious, Political Will

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If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

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Faith, Inspiration, Silence

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A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

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Believe, Thinking, Fire

"Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard as quotes in "The Point of View" by Robert L. Perkins, (p. 241), 2010.

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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

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Men, Forget, Ifs

Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

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Heart, Noble, Difficulty

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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.

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God, Religious, Doe

"Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper, p. 59 (July 7, 1838), 1959.

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All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

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Responsibility, Men, Shrewdness

Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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Future is everything that past has forgotten.

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Past, Forgotten

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Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

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Christian, Dream, Struggle

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Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

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Men, God Love, Humans

"The Sickness unto Death". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1849.

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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

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Religious, Religion, Helping

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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

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Hope, Falling In Love, Giving Up

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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

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Love, Needs, Should

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As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

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Prayer, Mean, Waiting

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If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

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Running, Want, Herds

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...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.

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Men, Being Real, Messages

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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God, Prayer, Doe

"Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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Born: May 5, 1813
Died: November 11, 1855
Occupation: Philosopher
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