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

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

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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 courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

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

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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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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.

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