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" Astonishment is the root of philosophy. "
Philosophy
Root
Astonishment
" Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. "
Meaning
Religion
Question
" Boredom is rage spread thin. "
Thin
Boredom
Rage
" Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. "
Cruelty
Also
Ourselves
" Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. "
Free
Risk
Being
" Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. "
Element
Faith
Opposite
" 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. "
Life
Meaning
Name
" Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. "
Being
Act
Faith
" Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. "
Faith
Concerned
State
" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "
Who
Failure
Being
" If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. "
Tongue
Would
Sing
" I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. "
Speak
Everyone
Hope
" 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. "
Being Alone
Pain
Loneliness
" Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. "
Being Alone
Alone
Pain
" Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. "
Destiny
Make
He
" Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. "
Man
Ultimate
Language
" Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. "
Way
Avoiding
Being
" Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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. "
Pain
Alone
Being Alone
" 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. "
Meaning
Other
Question
" The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. "
Deepest
Awareness
Maturity
" The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. "
God
Courage
Doubt
" The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. "
Courage
Being
Spite
" The first duty of love is to listen. "
Love Is
Listen
First
" There is no love which does not become help. "
No Love
Love
Become
" We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. "
Words
Clouds
Moving
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