Quotes by Paul Tillich

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Paul Johannes Tillich is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.
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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

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

Paul Tillich

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Paul Tillich

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Paul Tillich

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

Paul Tillich

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our ...

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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 answer to the question of a meaning of our life." Paul Tillich

Paul Tillich

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Paul Tillich

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Paul Tillich

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Paul Tillich

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 of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Paul Tillich

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Paul Tillich

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Paul Tillich

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 answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Paul Tillich

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

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The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

There is no love which does not become help.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Tillich
  • DescriptionGerman-American theologian and philosopher
  • BornAugust 20, 1886
  • DiedOctober 22, 1965
  • CountryGermany; United States Of America
  • ProfessionTheologian; Philosopher; Educationist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Grand Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Federal Republic Of Germany With Star; Peace Prize Of The German Book Trade