Best quotes by Soren Kierkegaard on God

Checkout quotes by Soren Kierkegaard on God

• ‟ Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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• ‟ The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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• ‟ God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

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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.

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• ‟ If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

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