CONTENTS

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843)

The Expectancy of Faith

Every Good and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above

Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843)

Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins

Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins

Strengthening in the Inner Being

Four Upbuilding Discourses (1843)

The Lord Gave, and the Lord Took Away;
Blessed Be the Name of the Lord

Every Good Gift and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above

Every Good Gift and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above

To Gain One’s Soul in Patience

Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844)

To Preserve One’s Soul in Patience

Patience in Expectancy

Three Upbuilding Discourses (1844)

Think about Your Creator in the Days of Your Youth

The Expectancy of an Eternal Salvation

He Must Increase; I Must Decrease

Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844)

To Need God Is a Human Being’s Highest Perfection

The Thorn in the Flesh

Against Cowardliness

One Who Prays Aright Struggles in Prayer
and Is Victorious—in That God Is Victorious

SUPPLEMENT

Key to References

Original Title Pages

Selected Entries from Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers Pertaining to Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

EDITORIAL APPENDIX

Acknowledgments

Collation of the Six Volumes of Upbuilding Discourses in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard’s Collected Works

Notes

Bibliographical Note

Index