If a person is forward toward a man of rank and importance, he may very well be punished by being thrust far away from him, but in order to be able to be forward toward God, one has to go far away from him.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source The Sickness Unto Death
Topic importance God
Date 1849
Language English
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Note Translated
 by Howard V. Hong and 
Edna H. Hong
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