Quote of the Day (Soren Kierkegaard, on Why ‘Faith Sees Best in the Dark’)
“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.”
— Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author Soren
Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Kierkegaard's Writings, XV: Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, edited and translated by H .V. Hong
& E.H. Hong (1993)
“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.”
— Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author Soren
Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Kierkegaard's Writings, XV: Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, edited and translated by H .V. Hong
& E.H. Hong (1993)
Yet, the most amongst us praise God when blessings are happy and beneficial, but prefer to curse the darkness when the tide turns against us. The wisest praise pain for they see the end in the beginning.
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