“The Spirit brings faith, the faith.”

—  Sören Kierkegaard , book For Self-Examination

Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 81
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), It Is the Spirit Who Gives Life

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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