"There is a government loan officer where the poor can go. The indigent person is helped, but do the poor have a joyful conception of this loan office? Likewise, there perhaps are marriages that seek God only in adversity, alas, and seek him as a loan office; and anyone who only then seeks him always runs this danger. Would such a late resolution, which even though worthy is still not bought at the last moment without shame and without great danger-would it be more beautiful and wiser than the first resolution of marriage?"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 67
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Three_Discourses_on_Imagined_Occasions
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions is an 1845 work by the Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard. They were published Apr 29, 1845 and one day later Stages on Life's Way was published. These discourses deal with confession, marriage and death from a Christian point of view.
12 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions →
Related Quotes
"… this little book […] seeks that single individual whom I with joy and gratitude call my reader, or it does not even…"
"Father in heaven, how well we know that seeking always has its promise; how much the more, then, seeking you, the giv…"
"Whoever says that this stillness does not exist is merely making noise."
"If anyone has the task of preaching or teaching others about their guilt, of teaching-something that this discourse, …"
"Alas, although there come to be more and more who know so very much, experienced people are becoming more and more rare!"
"The wedding ceremony is like a wreath of eternity, but love weaves it, and duty says it must be woven; and love’s del…"
"Death does not have the power to create unhappiness."
"The person who is without God in the world soon becomes bored with himself-and expresses this haughtily by being bore…"
"Time also is a good."
"Earnestness understands the same thing about death but understands it in a different way. It understands that death m…"