Kierkegaard - Works of Love Part 2 Chapter 10

The Works of Love in Praising Love  

In most cases, it is possible to say "It is one thing to say it, and quite another to do it."   But in the case of the work of love in praising love,   "Saying really is doing".    I can't help but suspect some self-reference here to the work of Kierkegaard.   But, SK removes this option by saying that the work of praising love must be done inwardly in self renunciation.   Still....

How is this done inwardly?    By thinking one thought.       The world considers this unnecessary and extravagant.  But it is self-renunciation which discovers that God is.

He who praises art and science emphasizes the cleavage between talented and untalented. But he who praises love equalizes all,   not in a common poverty nor in a common mediocrity, but in the community of the highest.