The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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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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 is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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