Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity in our common stupidity.Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman and there is only one relationship possible faith.
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The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say Well, this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their 'I cannot do otherwise' and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all life's terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this 'I cannot do otherwise'. They are the geniuses. Their 'I cannot do otherwise' is an infinite thought, for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought, he would lose his mind.
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Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance.... Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair.... An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely thisnot to be conscious of oneself as spiritis despair, which is spiritlessness....
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So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to dieyet not as though there were hope of life no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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