Whether a man has been helped by a miracle depends essentially upon the degree of intellectual passion he has employed to understand that help was impossible, and next upon how honest he is toward the Power which helped him nevertheless.
The believer possesses the eternally certain antidote to despair...possibility.
This is the sound health of faith which resolves contradictions.
The contradiction in this case is that, humanly speaking, destruction is certain, and that nevertheless there is possibility.
Health consists essentially in being able to resolve contradictions.
The loss of possibility signifies: either that everything has become necessary to a man or that everything has become trivial.
Personality is a synthesis of possibility and necessity.
This is what GOD is: ONE FOR WHOM ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
For in order to pray there must be a God, there must be a self plus possibility, or a self and possibility in the pregnant sense, for GOD is that all things are possible, and that all things are is GOD.
Possibility is for the self what oxygen is for breathing.
And only the man whose being has been so shaken that he became spirit by understanding that all things are possible, only he has had dealings with GOD.
For in order to be aware of oneself and GOD imagination must enable a man to soar higher than the misty precinct of the probable...and it must teach him to hope and fear, or to fear and hope.
BY RELATING ITSELF TO ITS OWN SELF AND BY WILLING TO BE ITSELF THE SELF IS GROUNDED TRANSPARENTLY IN THE POWER WHICH POSITED IT.
-Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
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