"Luther has said somewhere that a Christian has to wear the royal court dress of the cross, but I wonder if a Christian ought not also to be practiced in speaking, and to practice so as to be able to speak, the heavenly court language with all his heart. Gabbily to gush about the glory of eternal happiness is empty and foolish talk, but with closed lips, as it were, instead of speaking directly about eternal happiness, by speaking in another way about one’s hardships in life, to show that one is speaking about eternal happiness-that is the language of the royal court."
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Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (March 13, 1847) by Søren Kierkegaard, copyright 1993 by Howard Hong, Princeton University Press. This book was originally published as Edifying Discourses and was changed to Upbuilding Discourses in 1993 by Howard V Hong.
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