If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Soren Kierkegaard
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- Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
- Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
- Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.