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

Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard
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
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. – Soren Kierkegaard