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

Paul Tillich

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

Faith

Doubt

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.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

Failure

Being

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

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Paul Tillich

Song

Tongue

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.

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