Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to chan

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard

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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! – Soren Kierkegaard

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. – Mason Cooley

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Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. – Glen Beaman

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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