Quotes from authors passed in 1855
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
Maureen McCormick 
Denis Thatcher 
Kay Thompson 
Susan Anton 
Joyce Carol Oates 
Randy Travis 
Emil Ludwig 
David Deutsch