Bokelskere.no

[T]he weed of corruption has the characteristic that all weeds have: it sows itself.

This is the road we all must travel—over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.

In addition to the rest of my numerous circle of acquaintances—with whom I generally have a rather superficial relationship—I have one more intimate confidante: my melancholia; and in the midst of my joy, in the midst of my work, she beckons to me, calling me away, even though I remain present in body; she is the most faithful lover whom I have known, and what wonder, then, that I must be instant[ly] ready to follow.

How dreadful the thought of that man who once, as a small boy tending sheep on the Jutland heath, in much suffering, starving and exhausted, stood up on a hill and cursed God—and that man was unable to forget it when he was 82 years old.

Someone who has one thought, but an infinite one,
can be borne along by it through his entire life,
lightly and on wings . . .

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

The most agreeable, the most refreshing conversation is still that which is carried on by the trees . . .

Presentiment is the earthly life’s nostalgia for something higher, for the lucidity which man must have had in his paradisial life.

The immediate person believes and fancies that the main thing when he prays,
what he is particularly occupied with, is that God hears what it is he is praying for.
And yet in the truly eternal sense it is just the opposite:
it is not when God hears what is being prayed for that the true prayer relationship occurs
but when it is the one who prays who continues to pray until
it is he who is the one hearing, who hears what God wills.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of you awakens in our soul, let it not awaken like a startled bird which then flutters about in confusion, but like the child from sleep with its heavenly smile.