Best Paul Tillich Quotes
- The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of… Accused
- Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it:… Action
- The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. Anxiety
- Love is the infinite which is given to the finite. Finite
- The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. Answers
- Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern. Attitude
- Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as… Accepted
- The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good… All
- I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now! Altered
- The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. Affirmation
- The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to… Aim
- The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority. Answers
- The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it… Joy
- Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical… Analyzed
- He who knows about depth knows about God. Depth
- Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. Art
- The first duty of love is to listen. Communication
- Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of… Alone
- Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. Doubt
- The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Accept
- Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. Able
- Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning… Act
- He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Design
- I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. Atheist
- Boredom is rage spread thin. Blessing