Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Opposites, Views

  "The Sickness unto Death". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Part Two: Despair Is Sin, pp. 114 - 115, 1849.

• 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

• If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hero, Judging, World

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