"The truth which liberates is the power of love, for God is love.
The father of the lie binds us to himself by binding us to ourselves –
or to that in us which is not our true self.
Love liberates from the father of the lie
because it liberates us from our false self to our true self –
to that self which is grounded in true reality.
Therefore, distrust every claim for truth
where you do not see truth united with love;
and be certain that you are of the truth
and that the truth has taken hold of you
only when love has taken hold of you
and has started to make you free from yourselves."
(Paul Tillich, The New Being, page 74)
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