“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”

— Sören Kierkegaard

Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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