“Even though it be true that the conception of God is the absolute help, it is also the only help which is absolutely capable of revealing to man his own helplessness. The religious man lies in the finite like a helpless child; he desires absolutely to hold fast to the conception, and precisely this annihilates him; he desires to do all and, while he summons his will to the task, his impotence begins, since for a finite being there is always a meanwhile; he desires to do all, to express this religious absoluteness, but he cannot make this finite commensurable for that purpose.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To the “Philosophical Fragments” (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
