The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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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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