"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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"Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."
-Paul Tillich
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"The first duty of love is to listen."
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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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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-e. e. cummings
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
-Anais Nin
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
-Maya Angelou
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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