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“If Abraham actually had sacrificed Isaac, would he therefore have been less justified?”

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Author:Søren Kierkegaard

“The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we certainly come under judgement, but that the redeemer and the judge are the same.”

Christ Christianity Judgment Mercy Redeemer

Book:Journals and Papers, Vol 1: A-E

Source: Journals and Papers, Vol 1: A-E

“Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.”

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Book:Journals and Papers

Source: Journals and Papers

“All distinctions between the many different kinds of love are essentially abolished by Christianity.”

Love Christianity Page 144

Book:Works of Love

Source: Works of Love

“Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life....”

Life Christ Christianity Teaching Imitation Imitator Follower Adherent

Book:Practice in Christianity

Source: Practice in Christianity

“Tobias acted bravely, resolutely, and chivalrously, but any man who does not have courage for that is a milksop who knows neither what love is nor what it is to be a man nor what is worth living for.”

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Book:Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

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