More quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

"Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."
"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"
"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further."