June 15, 2008 at 6:35 am (Blooms)
Tags: Two Upbuilding Discourses
“Does God in heaven take the good gifts and hide them for us in heaven so that we may sometime receive them in the next world?…Perhaps you spoke in this way in your heart’s bewilderment. You did not demand that for your sake there should be given signs and wonderful manifestations, you did not childishly demand that every one of your wishes should be fulfilled; only you begged for a testimony early and late, for your soul treasured one wish.”
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~Source: Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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April 17, 2008 at 9:27 am (Blooms)
Tags: Two Upbuilding Discourses
“Then you acknowledged in all humility that God had certainly not deceived you, since He accepted you, since He accepted your earthly wishes and foolish desires, exchanged them for you and gave you instead heavenly consolation and holy thoughts; that He did not treat you unfairly when He denied you your wish, but for compensation created this faith in your heart; when instead of the wish, which even if it could do everything was at most able to give you the whole world, He gave you faith through which you gained God and overcame the whole world.”
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~Source: Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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