Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Faith

Quotes about: Faith

• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, God, Faith

• 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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Inspiration, Silence

• It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Believe, Belief

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Religious, Political Will

• Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Religious, Passionate

• Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Christian, Religious

• Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, World, Treasure

  "Fear and Trembling". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, translation by S. Walsh, p. 21, 2006.

• It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Knowledge, Historical

• Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Crime, Absurdity

  Soren Kierkegaard (2017). “Philosophical Fragments”, p.67, Jovian Press

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