“Who has more: the one who has God and also something else, or the one who, deprived of everything else, has God alone? Surely the latter, since ‘all else is loss.’* But who was deprived of more? The one who received not what was his right but mockery as his reward; the only thing a person has essentially is the right he has–he has everything else only accidentally; therefore it is not really his possession. The one who is mocked is deprived of everything; isolated from human society, he has only God–he the richest of all. He has only God–how blessed ot be alone in having God. Praised be all the persecution, the scorn, the mockery that taught him, that compelled him, to be alone with God, to have only God–how blessed to suffer mockery for a good cause!”
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~Source: Christian Discourses: “But It Is Blessed–to Suffer Mockery for a Good Cause” (1848)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
