About Paul Tillich: Paul Johannes Tillich is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
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 being alone.
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 produce by the will to believe, but that by which we are grasped.
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 being alone.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.
Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.
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 surrender his humanity
It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without the Christian culture, to consider pagans, humanists, and Jews as members of the latent Spiritual Community ...
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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 leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
