The believer humanly comprehends how heavy the suffering is, but in faith’s wonder that it is beneficial to him, he devoutly says: It is light. Humanly he says: It is impossible, but he says it again in faith’s wonder that what he humanly cannot understand is beneficial to him. In other words, when sagacity is able to perceive the beneficialness, then faith cannot see God; but when in the dark night of suffering sagacity cannot see a handbreadth ahead of it, then faith can see God, since faith sees best in the dark.
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Uplifting Discourses in Various Spirits in a section of text entitled “The Gospel of Suffering.” As quoted in: Gordon Marino (February 10, 2021): “Faith sees best in the dark”: Joe Biden, Søren Kierkegaard, and the education of suffering. In: ABC Religon & Ethics. Archived from abc.net.au on April 16, 2016.