The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMany of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I am convinced that God is love.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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