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.
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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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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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Boredom is rage spread thin.
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The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
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