Paul Tillich Quotes

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is...

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most funda...

...sin is separation.

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneli...

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneli...

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created th...

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety a...

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore...

...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward th...

Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines a...

The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all li...

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical ...

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitud...

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other c...

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of t...

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object...

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being wil...

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created...

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to e...

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the ri...

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other c...

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to ex...

"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not ...

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole...

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the ...

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Fear is the absence of faith.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

The first duty of love is to listen.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things w...

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - i...

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for ...

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below ...

It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activi...

For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.