Paul Tillich Quotes
- One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
- Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
- The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
- The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled…
- Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be…
- Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
- Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
- There is no love which does not become help.
- Our spirituality is the ground of our being.
- Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
- The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
- In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
- God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
- You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not…
- Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.
- Forgiving presupposes remembering.
- Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
- Every institution is inherently demonic.
- In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome…
- But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute…