Soren Kierkegaard Opposites Quotations

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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...

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.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.