To pray is to breathe,
and possibility is for the self what oxygen is for breathing.
But for possibility alone or for necessity alone to supply
the conditions for the breathing of prayer is no more possible
than it is to breathe pure oxygen or pure nitrogen alone.
For in order to pray there must be a God,
there must be a self plus possibility …
for God is that all things are possible.
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
