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Quote by Paul Tillich
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a c

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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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. – Paul Tillich

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. – 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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In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. – Hillary Clinton

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. – William Blake

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. – David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, 1739

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Im actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. – Brian Eno

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think hed be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because Im sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. – Paul Ryan

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