"...suddenly this thought crossed my mind: You must do something, but since with your limited capabilities it will be impossible to make anything easier than it has become, you must, with the same humanitarian enthusiasm as the others have, take it upon yourself to make something more difficult.  This idea pleased me enormously; it also flattered me that for this effort I would be loved and respected, as much as anyone else, by the entire community.  In other words, when all join together to make everything easier in every way, there remains only one possible danger, namely, the danger that the easiness would become so great that it would become all too easy.  So only one lack remains, even though not yet felt, the lack of difficulty.  Out of love of humankind, out of despair over my awkward predicament of having achieved nothing and of being unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, out of genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I comprehended that it was my task: to make difficulties everywhere."

-Johannes Climacus (character of Kierkegaard's in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Hong trans.) speaking primarily of "faith" (it's easiness)