"Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in any...

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












Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
More Paul Tillich quotes
"Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
"Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produ...
"Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
"man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surre...
"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
"Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in...
"Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.