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“People have in turn become so differentiated in the differences that are a part of the temporal world, and they perhaps misunderstand it if someone who does not share their difference is willing to stand together with them... he easily becomes the target of attacks from every quarter, he easily becomes like a lost sheep among ravening wolves.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“And death cannot deprive you of the neighbor, for if it takes one, then life immediatey gives you another in return. Death can deprive you of a friend, because in loving a friend you really hold together with the friend, but in loving the neighbor you hold together with God: therefore, death cannot deprive you of the neighbor. If, therefore, you have lost everything in romantic love and in friendship, if you have never possessed anything of that happiness: in loving the neighbor, you nonetheless retain what is best.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“Christian love never accepts something in advance and makes a promise instead of taking action; it never satisfies itself by imagining that it has finished; it never dwells upon itself in self-satisfaction; it never sits in idle wonder over itself. It is not that hidden, secretive, mysterious feeling behind the screen of the inexplicable that the poet wants to lure to the window; it is not a mood in the coddled soul that knows no law, nor does it want to know of any law or want to have its own law and listen only to songs: it is sheer action, and every one of its works is holy, for it is the fulfilling of the Law.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“In temporality, difference is the confusing factor that marks every human being differently, but the neighbor is the mark of the eternal - on every human being. Take many sheets of paper, write something different on each one - then none of them resembles any of the others; but then take up each individual sheet again, do not let yourself be disturbed by differences in what is written on them: hold them up to the light, and then you will see a common marking on all of them. And in the same way, the neighbor is the common mark, but you see it only with the help of eternity's light when it shines through the difference.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855