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" Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. "
Paul Tillich
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" Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. "
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" The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. "
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" Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. "
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" Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. "
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" If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. "
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