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"Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing"
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Date: March 13, 1847
"On this account we compare the heart with the sea, because the purity of the sea lies in its constancy of depth and transparency. No storm may perturb it; no sudden gust of wind may stir its surface, no drowsy fog may sprawl out over it; no doubtful movement may stir within it; no swift-moving c...
preview | full record— Kierkegaard, Søren (1813-1855)
Date: March 13, 1847
"As the sea, when it lies clam and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for God. As the sea is made pure by yearning for heaven alone; so may the heart become pure by yearning only for the Good. As the sea mirrors the elevatio...
preview | full record— Kierkegaard, Søren (1813-1855)
