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"Nothing is easier to teach than joy – alas, one only needs to be truly joyful oneself. But alas, this "alas" means that this is in fact not so easy – that is, it is not so easy always to be joyful oneself, for it is easy enough to teach joy when one is joyful: nothing is more certain than that".

Kierkegaard puts all modern day Christians to shame.

"Something strange and wonderful happened to him: gradually, as he became more and more fervent in prayer, he had less and less to say, and finally he became entirely silent. He became silent. Indeed, he became what is, if possible, even more the opposite of talking than silence: he became a listener. He had thought that to pray is to talk; he learned that to pray is not only to keep silent, but to listen."