The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather t... - Søren Kierkegaard
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
"For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought"
"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."
"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."