"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.“
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
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"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."
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"Don't forget to love yourself."
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