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Purity of heart is to will one thing. - Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard

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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. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Life
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. – Soren Kierkegaard

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God
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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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Change
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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil

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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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We are never defeated unless we give up on God. – Ronald Reagan

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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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If this word “music” is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. – John Cage

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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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