Eros and Self-Emptying: The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker)

by Lee C. Barrett III

To love God is the only happy love, but on the other hand it is also something terrible. Face to face with God man is without standards and without comparisons; he cannot compare himself with God, for here he becomes nothing . . . .” (JP 2, 1353)