Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, God, Faith

• 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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Religious, Doe

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper, p. 59 (July 7, 1838), 1959.

• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Smile, God, Children

  Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Prayer, Doe

  "Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Believe, Grasping

• The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Ideas, Doe

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