"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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"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.“
-Paul Tillich
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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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