For the Christian, Everything Should Serve for Edification – Kierkegaard
… it may well seem to them too rigorous to be edifying, and too edifying to be strictly scientific …. From the Christian point of view everything, indeed everything should serve for edification.… This relation of the Christian teaching to life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from life), or this ethical side of Christianity, […]
What I Must Do – Not What I Must Know – Kierkegaard
Seeing what the Deity really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Prayer Does not Change God – It Changes the One Praying
The prayer does not change God, but it changes the one who offers it. It is the same with the substance of what is spoken. Not God, but you, the maker of the confession, get to know something by your act of confession. – Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing
What I Must Do, Not what I Must Know – Kierkegaard
It is a question of understanding my destiny, of seeing what the Deity really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.