Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: “You are accepted. Paul Tillich
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  2. When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace. - Patricia Briggs
  3. All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which... - Simone Weil
  4. Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all. - Edmund Spenser
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More Quotes By Paul Tillich
  1. Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
  2. Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
  3. Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
  4. Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
  5. Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No."Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
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