Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause that it must be lived forward.
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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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It takes moral courage to grieve it requires religious courage to rejoice.
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The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.
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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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God does not think he creates. He does not exist he is eternal.
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