Re: Following Jesus - sayings and aphorisms by Kierkegaard

Anyone who does not take up the task in everyday life and in the living 
room should just keep quiet, because Sunday vistas into eternity are 
nothing but air. Of course, he should not remain in the living room. 
However, it is in the living room that the battle must be fought, lest the

skirmishes of piety become a changing-of-the-guard parade one day a week. 
It is in the living room that the battle must be fought, not imaginatively

in church, with the pastor shadowboxing and the listeners looking on. It
is 
in the living room that the battle must be fought, because the victory
must 
be that the home becomes a shrine. 


Bruderhof wrote:

> Imitation is not a requirement of the law, for then we would have the 
> burden of law again. No, imitation begins with the joy over being loved
– 
> and then comes the striving to please.
>