Soren Kierkegaard on Lenient and Sweet Christianity
Cited by Paul K. Moser in The Severity of God: Religion and Philosophy Reconceived (Cambridge University Press: 2013; orig. 1851), p. 1.Christianity can falsely be made so severe that human nature must revolt against it … But Christianity can also be made so lenient or flavored with sweetness that all the attempts to perk up the appetite and give people a taste for it with demonstrations and reasons are futile and end up making people disgusted with it.