Kierkegaard sharply distinguishes Christian love from ordinary
everyday love. Unlike Christian love, everyday love is nothing but concealed
selfishness while Christian love concerns itself with the other's happiness and
well-being. Kierkegaard's Christian love does this by bestowing the other with
what he really needs rather than gratifying transient and selfish desires.
Christian love can therefore ignore the earthly wishes of the loved one and aim
itself at aspiring longing for eternity.
