Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Prayer of SK in 1847

Here is a prayer I liked written by Kierkegaard:

Father in Heaven! Do not side with our sins against us, but side with us against our sins so that when the thought of you awakens in the soul, and every time it awakens, it might not remind us of our trespasses but of your forgiveness, not of how we went astray but of how you saved us!

He goes on... Loving God! You have commanded us to forgive our enemies, our erring brothers, not seven times but 70 x 7 times. How would you ever then grow weary of forgiving an honest penitent.

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