“What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding must precede every action. The thing is to

understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do…What good would it do me if the truth stood before me, cold and naked, not caring whether I recognized her or not, and

producing in me a shudder of fear rather than a trusting devotion?Must not the truth be taken up into my life? That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”

Kierkegaard quoted in Charles E. Moore, Introduction to “Provocations”