Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Smile, God, Children

  Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Travel, Stars, Fall

• As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Father, Fall, Humility

• Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Bird, Lilies, Kingdoms

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