The most common form of despair is not being who you are. - Søren Kierkegaard

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

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

"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"

"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."

"No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have."