The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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I am convinced that God is love.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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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