Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Heartbreak, Cheating

• Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Memories, Divine Justice, Paper

  "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Against Cowardliness". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 351,

• That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Journey, Sight, Bridges

• It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Opportunity, Reality, Vision

• The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Years, Confusing, Eternity

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

• Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Adversity, Voice, Affliction

• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Running, Despair, Noise

• Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Rejects You, World, Eternity

• Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spring, Men, Secret

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fear, Thinking, Atheism

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

• And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Hope, Night

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