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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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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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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. – Paul Tillich

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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. – Paul Tillich

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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. – Huston Smith

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

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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. – Albert Ellis

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Yoga is not a religion to me. – Christy Turlington

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