"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."
-Paul Tillich
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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
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"Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith."
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"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite."
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"Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith."
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