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• Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

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  Decision, Risk, Being Free

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• The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

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  Anxiety, Existence, Threat

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.

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  Forgiveness, Hurt, Children

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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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  Faith, Spiritual, Infinite

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

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  Motivation, Spirituality

  "Writings in the philosophy of culture".

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• The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.

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  Soul, Depth, Spirit

  Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.46, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

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  Character, Evil, Creative

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• Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

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  Doubt, Tools, Meaninglessness

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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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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  Religious, Hurt, Mean

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Nature, Moving, Voice

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• Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.

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  Facts, Accepted, Accepting

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• The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

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  Love Is, And Love, Deterioration

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

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  Atheist, Speak, Embarrassment

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Courage, Anxiety, Doubt

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.193, University of Chicago Press

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• Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

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  Holiness, Awareness

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.19, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no condition for forgiveness.

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  Conditions

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press

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• Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

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  Cruelty

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• Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

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  Joy, Tasks, Lord's Supper

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• Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

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  Love Is, Infinite, Given

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.173, U of Nebraska Press

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• Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.

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  Destiny, Strange, Given

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.185, University of Chicago Press

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• Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.

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  Mean, Impact, Asking Questions

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

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  Truth, Passion, Answers

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.65, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

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  Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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  Success, Maturity, Achievement

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• Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

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  Faith, States, Concerned

  1957 Dynamics of Faith.

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