Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith, for only in infinite resignation does an individual become conscious of his eternal validity, and only then can one speak of grasping existence by virtue of faith.Søren Kierkegaard
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.Søren Kierkegaard
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?Søren Kierkegaard
If one perhaps lacks courage to disapprove of this divine madness, one ridicules such people in order to take away from them the compensation of taking joy, poor substitutes though they be, in their effort.Søren Kierkegaard
One must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.Søren Kierkegaard
Anyone who has given in to it lives in repentance and struggles through repentance to eliminate it, often achieves that, and does he then find peace in his conscience? No, he finds remorse.Søren Kierkegaard
When the discoveries of wisdom have been communicated, then indeed it is discovered that he who received it could just as well have stayed at home.Søren Kierkegaard
But the one who loves God, he is the one who does not fear, and the one who loves God, he is the one who in love is informed about himself.Søren Kierkegaard
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.Søren Kierkegaard
Only the person who has been tried by suffering is equipped truly to live.Søren Kierkegaard