"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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Source : Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

Paul Tillich

#Religious Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.”
“You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.”
“If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button”
“You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!”
“Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.”
“Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.”

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
“Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.”
“Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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