aerasio

Fear and Trembling (excerpt) - Soren Kierkegaard

In our age, everyone is unwilling to stop with faith but goes further. It perhaps would be rash to ask where they are going, whereas it is a sign of urbanity and culture for me to assume that everyone has faith, since otherwise it certainly would be odd to speak of going further.

It was different in those ancient days.

Faith was then a task for a whole life time, because it was assumed that proficiency in believing is not acquired in days or in weeks.

When tried and tested oldster approcahed his end, had fought the good fight and kept the faith, his heart was still young enough not to have forgotten the fear and trembling that disciplined the youth, that the adult learned to control, but that no man outgrows - except to the extent that he succeeds in going further as early as possible.

The point attained by those venerable personages is in our age the point where everyone begins in order to go further...


Words to think on for awhile...

So said Aerasio at 00:58