Regarding Skepticism and Doubt

"All the objections to Christianity – what are they, after all, to the person who in truth is conscious of being a sinner and who has experienced belief in the forgiveness of sins and in this faith is saved from his sin? One conceivable objection might be: Yes, but is it not still possible for you to be saved in some other way? But how can one reply to this? One cannot. It is just like a person in love. If someone were to say: Yes, but you could perhaps have fallen in love with another – then he must answer: To this I cannot reply, for I know only one thing, that this is my beloved. As soon as the person who is in love tries to reply to this objection, he is by that very fact not a believer."

~Kierkegaard

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"Christ requires followers and defines precisely what he means by this. They are to be salt, willing to be sacrificed. But to be salt and to be sacrificed is not something that the thousands naturally go for, still less millions, or (still less!) countries, kingdoms, states, and (absolutely not!) the whole world."

~Soren Kierkegaard

Godly Sorrow

"There is a longing after God, a confidence in God, a comfort and hope
in God, a love, a frankheartedness but what most surely finds
Him is perhaps a sorrow after God. Sorrow after God that is no
fleeting mood which promptly vanishes with a nearer approach
to God; on the contrary, it is perhaps deepest when it draws
nearest to God, as one who thus sorrows is more fearful for himself
the nearer he comes to God."

~Soren Kierkegaard

Dividing Line

"It is not true that everything religious is united and everything irreligious belongs to the other side. It would be nearer the truth to draw a dividing line right through both the religious and the nonreligious."

~Eberhard Arnold

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God's expression of love is the blood from his slit wrist on the cross now availed for lifeless souls throughout History.

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A story by a man about a woman


a man once was given the task of guarding over a young woman. - the young woman, unfortunately, was turned into a grotesque demon every full moon, so that she was unrecognizable. on one such night the man was standing guard outside of her house, not knowing that she had snuck out the back. he was beginning to dose off while standing up when he heard a commotion in the front courtyard. he grabbed his bow and quiver and ran out to find a monstrous demon trudging towards him, malice gleaming in its eyes. in that moment, fear gripping him, the man forgot that the woman transformed on nights such as these when the full moon was out, and he fired three arrows in rapid succession at the beast, which groaned and fell to the ground. Upon falling the girl transformed into herself again.
At that moment, the girl's father - the king - ran out and yelled at the sight of the young woman lying in the courtyard, wounded and covered in blood. "you clumsy oaf!" he shouted at the man. "couldn't you see it was her? you knew she transformed on nights where the full moon shined! as for me, i will never let you stand guard at my palace again!"
the man with the bow looked up with tears in his eyes. "your majesty, all i wanted was to protect your daughter the princess," he replied. "in the moment of peril i was not thinking clearly. please do not judge my ability as a guardsman based on my erroneous decision in the moment of crisis."

~Anonymous

The Kierkegaarden Alternatives

"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

"Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success -- but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity."

"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes."

~Soren Kierkegaard