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Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by which we are grasped.

~ Paul Tillich ~

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Paul TillichBiblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

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