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Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to ... dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle		Thursday May 02, 2024
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The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Johannes Tillich

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	Paul Johannes Tillich
	Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 - October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with contemporary Karl Barth, one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century. Read More

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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.

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

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

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

There is no condition for forgiveness.

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.

Love that cares, listens.

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

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

The first duty of love is to listen.