Soren Kierkegaard Quotes about Faith

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

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

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith, Inspiration, Silence

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith, Religious, Political Will

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith, Religious, Passionate

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith, Believe, Belief

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith, Knowledge, Historical