Quotes from Paul Tillich
Man and nature belong together in their created glory — in their tragedy and in their salvation.
- 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
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
- Paul Tillich
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
- Paul Tillich
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
- Paul Tillich
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.
- Paul Tillich
The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.
- Paul Tillich
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
- Paul Tillich
Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.
- Paul Tillich
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
- 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
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
- Paul Tillich