"There are those who talk about God’s cause, and about wanting to serve that cause. This is all very fine, but how, exactly, is this to be interpreted? The common view thinks that God has a cause in the human sense of the word, that he is some kind of advocate, interested in having his cause win and therefore eager to help the person who would serve his cause, and so forth. If we follow this line of thinking God becomes a minor character who arrives at the embarrassing dilemma of needing human beings.
No, no! God has no cause, is no advocate in this sense. For God everything is infinitely nothing. Any second he wills it, everything, including all opposition to his cause, becomes nothing. Wanting to serve God’s cause can never mean the same thing as coming to his aid. He is quite able to accomplish his will alone."
Søren Kierkegaard
Emma: thank you for pandas, and the Earth, so we don’t have to live in space.
Emma: Please help the beautiful rainforests, where the little pygmie marmosets live.
Owen: please help poisonous lizards.
Emma: you mean the thorny devil?
Owen: no, a different one! And plain lizards too!
Emma: I want to pray that echidnas have good lives and don’t get eaten by dingos.
