At Once Good and Imperfect

“ Anxiety strives to become fear, because fear can be met by courage. It is impossible for a finite being to stand naked anxiety for more than a flash of time … But ultimately the attempts to transform anxiety into fear are vain. The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the treat of nonbeing, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. ”

- Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (39).