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

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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

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

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

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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

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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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