“His life from the very beginning is a story of temptation; it is not only one particular period in his life, the forty days, that is the story of temptation – no his whole life is a story of temptation (just as it is also of suffering). Every moment of his life he is tempted – that is, he has this possibility in his power, to take his calling, his task, in vain.”

Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 58-59
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), Christ is the Way

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