"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."
-Paul Tillich
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"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.“
-Paul Tillich
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