Re: Soren Kierkegaard on Faith and Reason

Have you seen a ship aground in a spongy bog? It is almost impossible to 
get it afloat again because it is impossible to drive piles. No pile 
reaches ground firm enough so that one can rely on it. In just the same
way 
our whole generation is stuck fast in the spongy bog of reason; and there 
is no grief over it – no, there is self-satisfaction and conceit, which 
always accompanies reason and the sin of reason. Oh, the sins of the
heart, 
the sins of passion – how much closer they are to salvation than the sin
of 
intellect!


> It is not reasons that justify faith in God’s son, but just the
> opposite – faith in God’s son is the testimony. Faith is the movement
> of infinity within itself, and it cannot be otherwise. Everything
> previous is preparatory, preliminary, something which disappears as
> soon as the conviction arrives. Otherwise, there would be no resting
> in a conviction, for then to have conviction would mean perpetually to
> repeat the reasons. Faith itself is the testimony, faith is the
> justification. 
>