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Paul Tillich Quotes

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.
Paul Tillich

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Type:
Theologian Quotes
Category:
German Theologian Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 20, 1886
Date of Death:
October 22, 1965
Nationality:
German
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