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“Just as gold is purified in the fire, so the soul is purified in sufferings.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.”
― Soren Kierkegaard