A bit of a follow-up to last week’s fantastic post on Kierkegaard and imputation. It’s doozy of a quote on perfect, one-way, love:
“To be able to love a person despite his weaknesses and defects and imperfections is still not perfect love, but rather this, to be able to find him lovable despite and with his weaknesses and defects and imperfections. Let us understand each other. It is one thing fastidiously to want to eat only the choicest and most delectable dish when it is exquisitely prepared or, even when this is the case, fastidiously to find one or another defect in it. It is something else not merely to be able to eat plainer foods but to be able to find this plainer food to be the most exquisite, because the task is not to develop one’s fastidiousness but to transform oneself and one’s taste.”
-Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, p. 157-8
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Yep, definitely reading Works of Love now