Confession should be only in secret before God, who knows everything anyway, and thus it could remain hidden in one's innermost being. But at a dinne… - Søren Kierkegaard

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.

In the external, patience is some third element that must be added, and, humanly speaking, it would be better if it were not needed; some days it is needed more, some days less, all according to fortune, whose debtor a person becomes, even though he gained ever so little, because only when he wants to gain patience does he become one's debtor.