German - Theologian | August 20, 1886 - October 22, 1965
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
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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.
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.
The first duty of love is to listen.
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
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There is no love which does not become help.
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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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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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