is useless labor, because the concept of the Law is to be inexhaustible, limitless, endless in its provisions; every provision begets of itself an even more precise provision, and in turn a still more precise provision by reference and in relation to the new provision, and so on infinitely. The relation of love to the Law is here like the relation of faith to understanding. The understanding counts and counts, calculates and calculates, but it never arrives at the certainty that faith possesses; in the same way the Law defines and defines but never arrives at the sum, which is love." Loving the neighbor has a "double danger." The same with faith and hope. We not only wish that we could have love and peace but that our neighbor can have the same because it is a free gift from God. He nicely summed up the idea he had in his 1847 book Works of Love. Selected religious works (1847) Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits (1847) Works of Love (1848) Christian Discourses (1848) The Book on Adler (1849) The Sickness Unto Death (1850) Training in Christianity (1851) For Self-Examination (1851) Judge for Yourselves! References Sources Alexander Dru. The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, Oxford University Press, 1938. Duncan, Elmer. Søren Kierkegaard: Maker of the Modern Theological Mind, Word Books 1976, Joakim Garff. Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, Princeton University Press 2005, . Hannay, Alastair and Gordon Marino (eds). The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, Cambridge University Press 1997, Alastair Hannay. Kierkegaard: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, New edition 2003, . External links Edifying Discourses, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by David F. Swenson, 1958 Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing Translation of part one of Edifying Discourses in Various Spirits 1938 Douglas V. Steere D. Anthony Storm's Commentary On Kierkegaard Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard's attack upon "Christendom," 1854-1855 Princeton University Press (1946) Retrieved May 18, 2012 Universidad Iberoamericana - Kierkegaard en español Kierkegaard Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard