Charles Spurgeon: Fear of Anxiety (1857)

This is part of a sermon delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 23, 1857, by the REV. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. I've added a few quotes to the video by Soren Kierkegaard who lived from 1813-1855 in Denmark.

Kierkegaard said, "Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able. In a logical system, it is convenient to say that possibility passes over into actuality. However, in actuality it is not so convenient, and an intermediate term is required. The intermediate term is anxiety, but it no more explains the qualitative leap than it can justify it ethically. Anxiety is neither a category of necessity nor a category of freedom; it is entangled freedom, where freedom is not free in itself but entangled, not by necessity, but in itself." The Concept of Anxiety p. 49 (1844)

"The inquiring subject must be in one of two situations: either he must in faith be convinced of the truth of Christianity and his own relation to it, in which case all the rest cannot possibly be of infinite interest, since faith is precisely the infinite interest in Christianity and any other interest easily becomes a temptation; or he is not in a relationship of faith but is objectively in a relationship of observation and as such is not infinitely interested in deciding the question." Soren Kierkegaard, Concluding Postscript, (1846) Hong p. 21


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