The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren KierkegaardThis is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
Soren KierkegaardNowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
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