KIERKEGAARD17

He feels a blissful rapture in letting love tingle through every never, and yet his soul is as solemn as that of the man who has drained the poisoned goblet and feels how the juice permeates every drop of blood--for this instant is life and death. [Fear and Trembling]

He is God; and yet he has not a resting-place for his head, and he dares not lean on any man lest he cause him to be offended. He is God; and yet he picks his steps more carefully than if angels guided them, not to prevent his foot from stumbling against a stone, but lest he trample human beings in the dust, in that they are offended in him. He is God; and yet his eye surveys mankind with anxious care, as a blade of grass. How wonderful a life, all sorrow and all love: to yearn to express the equality of love and yet to be misunderstood; to apprehend the danger that all men may be destroyed, and yet only so to be able really to save a single soul; his own life filled with sorrow, while each hour of the day is taken up with the troubles of the learner who confides in him! This is God as he stands upon the earth, like unto the humblest by the power of his omnipotent love. [Philosophical Fragments]

He is not, and for nobody is He willing to be, one about whom we have learned to know something merely from history..., for from history we can learn to know nothing about Him, because there is absolutely nothing that can be "known" about Him.--He declines to be judged in a human way by the consequences of His life, that is to say, He is and would be the sign of offense and the object of faith. To judge Him by the consequences of His life is mere mockery of God; for, seeing that He is God, His life (the life which he actually lived in time) is infinitely more important than all the consequences of it in the course of history. [Training in Christianity]

...he preserves his love just as young as it was in its first moment, he never lets it go from him, precisely because he makes the movements infinitely. [Fear and Trembling]

He, the God of love, wanted to be loved, but is too great a connoisseur of what love is to want to have to order men to love Him by battalions or whole nations, as the command, "One, two, three," is given at the church parade... This was His thought, even though we men might say, if we dared, that it was the most annoying caprice on the part of God to put us together in this way, or cut us off in this way from what we animals regarded as the true well-being, from coalescing with the herd, everyone just like the others. [Attack Upon "Christendom"]

He to whom I have an obligation is my neighbor, and when I fulfill my obligation I show that I am his neighbor. [Works of Love]

He will have nothing to do with man's pert inquiry about why and why did Christianity come into the world: it is and shall be the absolute. Therefore everything men have hit upon relatively to explain the why and the wherefore is falsehood. [Training in Christianity]

Here we have at once the principle of limitation, the only saving principle in the world. The more you limit yourself, the more fertile you become in invention. A prisoner in solitary confinement for life becomes very inventive, and a spider may furnish him with much entertainment. [Either/Or, VOL. I: THE ROTATION METHOD]