Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• 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

  Bible, Christian, Biblical

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

• The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Sweet, Atheist

• ...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

  Men, Being Real, Messages

• Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Atheism, Demand, Christianity

• 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

  Opposites, Definitions, Sin

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus”, p.111, Penguin UK

• To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Stupid, Men, Giving

• 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

  Taken, Race, Opposites

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

• O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reform, Doe, Matter

• 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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

• Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Powerful, Passion

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wish, Firsts, Serious

• People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Struggle, Fighting

• In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Horse, Children, Hobbies

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

• With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Order, Perfect

• Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Believe, People

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Requirements, Tactics

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Simple, Way, Christianity

• Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christianity, Theologian

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Done, Christianity, Awareness

• Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Guilt, May

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

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Book, Reading, Preparation

• 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

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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