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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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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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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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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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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.
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
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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.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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