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Without the eros toward truth, theology would not exist.

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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

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There is no truth without the form of truth, namely justice.

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Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

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

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

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Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

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The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

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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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The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

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In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

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

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Even loneliness is not absolute loneliness because the contents of the universe are in him.

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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt.

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Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

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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 is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

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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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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

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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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History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

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Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

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Only the eternal can save us from the anxiety of being a meaningless bit of matter in a meaningless vortex of atoms and electrons.

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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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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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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 weakness of the fanatic is that those whom he fights have a secret hold upon him; and to this weakness he and his group finally succumb.

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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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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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In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

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