Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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

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

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.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Don't forget to love yourself.

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.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.