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Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
— Paul Tillich
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
— Paul Tillich
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
— Paul Tillich
Love that cares, listens.
— Paul Tillich
We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.
— Paul Tillich
Man creates what he is.
— Paul Tillich
There is no love which does not become help.
— Paul Tillich
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
— Paul Tillich
The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations
— Paul Tillich
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
— Paul Tillich
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
— Paul Tillich
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
— Paul Tillich
For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.
— Paul Tillich
Truth without the way to truth is dead.
— Paul Tillich
...sin is separation.
— Paul Tillich
Our spirituality is the ground of our being.
— Paul Tillich
Fear is the absence of faith.
— Paul Tillich
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
— Paul Tillich
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
— Paul Tillich
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
— David Brooks
Wine is like the incarnation
it is both divine and human — Paul Tillich
it is both divine and human — Paul Tillich
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
— Paul Tillich
The first duty of love is to listen.
— Paul Tillich
He who participates in God participates in eternity.
— Paul Tillich
The courage to die is the test of the courage to be.
— Paul Tillich
Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.
— Paul Tillich
History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
— Paul Tillich
There is no condition for forgiveness.
— Paul Tillich
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
— Paul Tillich
Is no love which does not become help, taught the theologian Paul Tillich.)
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
— Paul Tillich
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
— Paul Tillich
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
— Paul Tillich
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
— Paul Tillich
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
— Paul Tillich
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
— Paul Tillich
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!
— Paul Tillich
Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being
— Paul Tillich
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).
— Paul Tillich
It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)
— Paul Tillich
He who knows about depth knows about God.
— Paul Tillich
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
— Paul Tillich
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
— Paul Tillich
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
— Paul Tillich
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.
— Paul Tillich
Boredom is rage spread thin
— Paul Tillich
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
— Paul Tillich
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
— Paul Tillich
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
— Paul Tillich
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
— Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich, for example, maintained that, 'It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it.'4
— Lloyd Geering
Every institution is inherently demonic.
— Paul Tillich
Real joy is a "severe matter"; it is the happiness of a soul which is "lifted above every circumstance.
— Paul Tillich
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
— Paul Tillich