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Let us suppose that a man believes in eternal life on Christ's word. In that case he believes without any fuss about being profound and searching and philosophical and racking his brains.
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
My doubt goes like this: How could the Loving One have the heart to let human beings become so guilty that they got his murder on their consciences?
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
If the genius is an artist, then he accomplishes his work as art, but neither he nor his work of art has a telos outside him.
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
A genius and an Apostle are qualitatively different, they are definitions which each belong in their own spheres: the sphere of immanence, and the sphere of transcendence.
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
I can understand myself in believing, although in addition I can in a relative misunderstanding comprehend the human aspect of this life: but comprehend faith or comprehend Christ, I cannot.
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
He lived year after year. He attended only to himself and to God and this picture-but he did not understand himself.
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
These two essays probably will essentially be able to interest only theologians. (Preface)
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
He was extremely important to his contemporaries, who wanted nothing more than to see in him the Expected One; they wanted almost to press it upon him and and to force him into the role - but that he then refuses to be that!
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
Between God and man there is and remains an eternal, essential, qualitative difference. The paradoxical relationship (which, quite rightly, cannot be thought, but only believed) appears when God appoints a particular man to divine authority, in relation, be it carefully noted, to that which has entrusted to him.
Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)