Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. — Quoted

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“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”

Soren Kierkegaard · Experience

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Soren Kierkegaard

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Happiness

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Change

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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.

God

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Faith