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Love that cares, listens.

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Paul Tillich
Age: 79 †
Born: 1886
Born: August 20
Died: 1965
Died: October 22
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich
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Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.
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Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.
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The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
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The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. Existential in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.
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Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
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Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
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Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
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Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
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For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
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We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
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There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
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The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.
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The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .
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God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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