Kierkegaard: holding on to sin

Friday, September 8, 2017
    Commemoration of Søren Kierkegaard, Teacher and Philosopher, 1855
Meditation:
    But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
    —Isaiah 57:20-21 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately fast as to his sin.
    ... Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Christian Discourses, tr. Walter Lowrie, New York: Oxford University Press, 1961, p. 385 (see the book)
    See also Isa. 57:20-21; 9:18; Amos 5:12; John 3:19-20
Quiet time reflection:
    Help me, Lord, to let go of my sin. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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