Best Paul Tillich Sayings
- Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. Courage
- Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. Cruelty
- Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. Concerned
- The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Anxiety
- Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. Answers
- Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the… All
- Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. Act
- Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Accountability
- Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. Avoiding
- If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. Inspirational
- Astonishment is the root of philosophy. Astonishment
- We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of… Clouds
- There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God. Flee
- Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. Cynical
- Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human Both
- [A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can… All
- Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. Concerned
- 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;… Contradicting
- Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. Bring
- Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity. Eternally
- In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents,… Adherents
- I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life… Actual
- ...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. Been
- The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion. Consequence
- In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. Anxiety