“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.”
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
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.